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CO2 emissions. Levels of the damaging greenhouse gas carbon dioxide have reached an alarming new milestone at the world’s oldest measuring station in Hawaii. It is estimated the last time CO2 concentrations were this high was during the mid Pliocene epoch 2.5-5 million years ago. (Photo by Ian Britton) Photo used under CC BY

CO2 levels at highest point since human evolution

The Mauna Loa Observatory, which has measured the parts per million (ppm) of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1958, took a reading of 415.26ppm in the air – thought to be the highest concentration since humans evolved.

The Independent

Trash found littering ocean floor in deepest-ever sub dive

Thomson Reuters Foundation

UN urges financial isolation of Myanmar army

A United Nations fact-finding mission urged Tuesday that countries cut off all business with Myanmar’s military as part of efforts to hold the army accountable for human rights abuses.

Associated Press

Micro-gardening helps Rohingya refugees improve diet

Al Jazeera

Organized crime driving trafficking, slavery in UK

A new report from the UK’s National Crime Agency says the country is seeing a marked increase in trafficking victims with modern slavery and human trafficking having grown 36 percent in a year.

The National

Mozambique health facilities failing mothers

In the wake of cyclones Kenneth and Idai, which destroyed much of Mozambique’s health infrastructure, thousands of pregnant and lactating women are at risk due to inadequate medical facilities and resources.

Al Jazeera

Cyclone Kenneth survivors struggle to rebuild lives in Mozambique

Al Jazeera

China’s transgender risking self-surgery

A dearth of information and services, paired with cultural stigma, has led many transgender Chinese to perform dangerous surgeries on themselves and to purchase black market hormones, according to a new report from Amnesty International.

Advocate

Delhi’s marginalized left out of India’s election

A recent report by election watchdog Missing Voters suggested that some 120 million people, many of them minorities such as Muslims or Dalits, were left out of electoral lists. Authors of the report said there was a slow but steady process.

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

China’s persecuted Uyghurs live ‘free’ in Turkey

Thousands of Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority from Xinjiang province in western China, have sought refuge in Turkey after escaping Beijing’s brutal crackdown against the group.

CNN

Morocco using education to stem migration

With 26 percent of Morocco’s youth unemployed, many see nearby Spain as a job hub. But the Moroccan government is working with Spain to develop educational programs that could stem youth migration.

Devex

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

ECJ rules nations can’t deport at-risk refugees

The European Court of Justice has ruled that countries cannot deport people who would be in serious danger in their countries of origin, even if they commit crimes. However, they could lose their refugee status.

Deutsche Welle

Austria issues migrant ‘10 commandments’

Deutsche Welle

Kabul rebuilds to promote peace and safety

Despite decades of war, an urban revolution is growing in Kabul, which is rebuilding its old town and creating a register of dwellings to promote peace and help residents feel safer.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Protect solar system from mining, scientists say

Great swathes of the solar system should be preserved as official “space wilderness” to protect planets, moons and other heavenly bodies from rampant mining and other forms of industrial exploitation, scientists say.

Guardian

Job-hunting apps expose women to assault

Job-hunting apps are putting women in Japan at risk of sexual assault and harassment, academics and career advisers have warned, as apps that help career-seeking students meet one-on-one with alumni become more common.

The Independent

GLOBAL HEALTH

Vietnam to mobilize military to fight swine fever

Vietnam said it will mobilize its military and police forces to help combat the outbreak of African swine fever that has already resulted in the culling of about 4 percent of the country’s pig herd.

Reuters

Nigerians falsifying vaccine cards to travel

In Nigeria, 1 in 5 people who contract yellow fever die from it. But many are refusing vaccines and bypassing travel vaccine requirements, increasing the risk of the epidemic-prone disease spreading worldwide.

Devex

Liberia launches Hepatitis B vaccinations

Front Page Africa

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Matt Ford):

Homelessness is not a crime

The New Republic

Column (Shenggen Fan):

How to transform food systems to feed the world and prevent mass extinctions

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Column (Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes):

Charging asylum application fees is the latest way the US could make immigrants pay for its red tape

The Conversation

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GOOD NEWS

Elephant remembers old trainer in reunion

After 35 years, Kristy the Asian elephant still has fond memories of her former zookeeper, Peter Adamson. He was Kristy’s trainer in the early ’70s and ’80s, when she lived at a zoo in Scotland that is now closed.

MSN

Baby elephant is rescued from a lake in India

YouTube

Oldest working nurse turns 94, still on shift

Florence “SeeSee” Rigney has been working as a nurse since 1946 and celebrated her 94th birthday while on shift at Tacoma General Hospital. Rigney said she plans to work “until they kick me out.”

MSN Money

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Dartmouth alumnus commits $10M to school

Dartmouth College announced a $10 million pledge from alumnus and trustee Gregg Engles and his wife, Molly, to advance liberal arts and experiential learning at the Ivy League school.

Philanthropy News Digest

Italy to fine NGO boats per rescued migrant

Italy’s government is planning to issue a decree that would mean NGO rescue boats would be fined up to $6177 for each migrant they disembark on to Italian soil.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Wales farmers mull burning or burying plastic

Farmers in Wales could resort to burning or burying plastic waste as there is no other way to dispose it, it has been claimed. The only company dedicated to collecting it from them has suspended its services for a year.

BBC

Coca-Cola most common source of packaging pollution on UK beaches

Guardian

Plastic harms the bacteria that help us breathe

Phys.org

Madagascar’s teens step up to save wildlife

Madagascar has a dubious accolade: It is the world-leader in deforestation. Now, some of the island’s teenagers have started a farming revolution - working to stop food production from destroying the island’s rich rainforest.

BBC

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Rising inequality threatens British democracy

Nobel laureate and Princeton professor Angus Deaton has warned that the widening gap between rich and poor is “making a mockery of democracy” and inequality in the United Kingdom could soon hit American levels.

CNN

Pakistan agrees to another payout from IMF

Pakistan has secured a $6 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund as it battles to stave off an economic crisis. This comes after months of negotiations and marks the latest in a string of bailouts from IMF.

BBC

Pakistan stocks drop as IMF’s $6B bailout draws questions

Bloomberg

Cuba begins rationing staples in face of crisis

Cuba announced that it is launching widespread rationing of chicken, eggs, rice, beans, soap and other basic products in the face of a grave economic crisis.

CBS News

Photo of the Day

A woman sells pork at Can Tho, Vietnam in April 2012. Pork accounts for three-quarters of the total meat consumption in Vietnam, a country of 95 million people, where most of its 30 million farm-raised pigs are consumed domestically. An ongoing outbreak of African swine fever has hit farms in 29 provinces, and prompted the authorities to cull more than 1.2 million pigs. (Photo by Balint Földesi) Photo used under CC BY

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