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Men distributing food aid to the Malagasy people. Madagascar, an island nation off East Africa, is in the middle of back-to-back droughts that the United Nations warns are pushing 400,000 people toward starvation. (Photo by USAID/ Malala Ramarohetra) Photo used under CC BY

Climate extremes are now hitting wealthier places

As the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather, experts are noticing something different. Wealthy countries are joining poorer and more vulnerable nations on a growing list of extreme weather events that have some connection to climate change.

Associated Press

Flooding will hit millions more in next decade

Guardian

Cry for civil war rises in Myanmar amid crisis

As Myanmar’s crisis deepens amid a spiraling COVID outbreak, collapsing economy and repressive military coup, rising anger is galvanizing calls for the shadow government to launch an uprising against the coup regime.

Asia Times Online

Mosques rescue Myanmar COVID patients

Deutsche Welle

Reforestation threatens global food security

Governments and businesses hoping to plant trees and restore forests in order to reach net-zero emissions must sharply limit such efforts to avoid driving up food prices in the developing world, Oxfam has warned.

Guardian

Bolsonaro‘s ’land grab‘ bill passes Brazil’s lower house

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Sudan takes step toward trying former leader

The Sudanese cabinet has voted to ratify the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court, a move bringing closer the possibility of former longtime President Omar al-Bashir facing trial for genocide.

Al Jazeera

Indians protest forced cremation of victim

Protests are continuing for the fourth day over the alleged gang rape, murder and forced cremation of a nine-year-old girl in the Indian capital, Delhi. Protesters are demanding the death penalty for the accused.

BBC

UN urges Afghan parties to protect civilians

The United Nations has called on Afghanistan’s warring parties to do more to protect Afghanistan’s civilians, warning that the impact of “indiscriminate” gunfire and air raids will be “catastrophic.”

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Nigerian doctors strike over pay, poor facilities

Doctors in Nigeria’s state-run hospitals have began a strike over pay, insurance benefits and poor facilities as the country faces a third wave of COVID.

Al Jazeera

Refugees pushed to back of the line for vaccine

For months the World Health Organization urged countries to prioritize immunizing refugees, placing them in the second priority group for at-risk people, alongside those with serious health conditions.

Associated Press

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Tunisia waits in limbo amid mounting instability

Tunisia remains in limbo more than a week after President Kais Saied fired the prime minister, froze parliament and took on executive powers. Some citizens worried about what comes next, and when it will happen.

Associated Press

Afghan city residents urged to flee amid attacks

Residents of a besieged Afghan city have been urged to evacuate ahead of an army operation against the Taliban.

BBC

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Slowdown of Earth’s spin caused oxygen surge

Here’s a new spin on how Earth became an oxygen-rich planet: As our planet’s rotation slowed, microbes were bathed in longer stints of sunlight that revved up their release of oxygen into the atmosphere.

LiveScience

Sponge fossils may be oldest animal life found

A Canadian scientist believes she could have found evidence of the oldest known animal life, according to a report in the Nature journal. The finding on a remote northwest Canadian mountainside dates back 890 million years.

Deutsche Welle

GLOBAL HEALTH

Delta puts China on brink of a new COVID crisis

China’s seemingly impregnable COVID firewall is springing leaks, with the country logging more local cases in 20 days than in the previous five months combined.

Asia Times Online

China’s Wuhan to test all 12M residents after Delta variant found

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Iran has record daily COVID cases, deaths

Iran’s daily COVID caseload crossed the 37,000 mark for the first time this week, the health ministry said, as the Islamic republic also recorded its highest daily fatalities in three months.

Asia Times Online

Doctors study danger of new delta variant

With a new wave of COVID-19 infections fueled by the delta variant striking countries worldwide, disease experts are scrambling to learn whether the latest version of COVID is making people sicker than before.

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Hamilton Nolan):

Our leaders look climate change in the eyes, and shrug

Guardian

Column (Alexandra De Cramer):

Under the shadow of COVID-19, a pandemic of rape

Asia Times Online

Column (Patrick Gathara):

Charity alone will not end the calamity of COVID-19 in Africa

Al Jazeera

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Rachel Barrus, Ashley Nawn, Sanaz Ariya and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

App enables homeless man to turn life around

A previously homeless man with a severely deformed palms has been in a position to rebuild his life after discovering a brand new strategy to talk, due to a novel hexagonal smartphone keyboard made in Switzerland.

American Top Gist

Man paddles 80 miles to fight for cystic fibrosis

Good Morning America

Woman helps homeless keep cool during heat wave

KWCH

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Foundation commits $20M to Africa COVID aid

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a commitment of $20 million in immediate, flexible funding to Africa CDC in support of COVID-19 response efforts.

Philanthropy News Digest

Employee volunteering dropped, giving rose

The social distancing requirements of COVID cut employees’ willingness to volunteer in person during 2020, but they made up for it through their cash contributions to nonprofits.

NonProfit Times

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

India’s domestic workers lose jobs to COVID

For the first time in their lives, richer Indians had to do their own housework. And even when lockdowns have been lifted, they have not reverted to the old ways, their dependence on domestic workers reduced.

Guardian

COVID locks India’s women out of jobs for years

Thomson Reuters Foundation

India’s female labor participation tanks to 16%

Thomson Reuters Foundation

South Africa: Most looted shops still shut

A spree of violence and looting engulfed South African provinces a couple of weeks ago, during which thousands of businesses were gutted. The government declared a state of disaster to divert funds toward the recovery.

Deutsche Welle

ENVIRONMENT

Farmers devastated as wildfires sweep Turkey

At least eight people have died in more than 100 blazes that broke out earlier this week, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency.

CNN

Evolutionary ‘trap’ leads turtles to eat plastic

Young marine turtles are swallowing large quantities of plastic, with ocean pollution changing habitats that were once ideal for their development into a risk, researchers have found.

Guardian

Finance firms plan to close coal plants in Asia

Some of the world’s biggest financial institutions are working on a plan to speed the closure of coal-fired power plants in Asia.

BBC

Photo of the Day

A child soldier in Afghanistan. In 2020, the situation of children in armed conflict was marked by a sustained high number of grave violations. The United Nations verified 26,425 grave violations, of which 23,946 were committed in 2020 and 2,479 were committed earlier but verified only in 2020. The highest number of violations was the recruitment and use of 8,521 children. (Photo by Robin Kirk) Photo used under CC BY

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