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The world‘s oceans soak up about a quarter of the CO2 that humans pump into the air each year — a powerful brake on the greenhouse effect. But a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that CO2 regeneration may become faster as the oceans warm with changing climate, which, in turn, may reduce the deep oceans’ ability to keep carbon locked up. (Photo by Viv Lynch) Photo used under CC BY

Warming oceans pump CO2 back into atmosphere

A new study suggests that CO2 regeneration may become faster in many regions of the world as the oceans warm with changing climate. This, in turn, may reduce the deep oceans’ ability to keep carbon locked up.

Phys.org

World’s oceans becoming stormier

CNN

Syrian refugees in Lebanon risk trip home

Many Syrian refugees who fled to Lebanon, where work and living space are in increasingly short supply, find their situation has become so dire that they must consider heading back to war-torn Syria.

Deutsche Welle

Foreign war criminals finding haven in US

War crimes perpetrators from conflicts in Rwanda, Ethiopia, and Vietnam have fled to, and been identified in, the U.S., yet they largely go unprosecuted and sometimes even live alongside their victims.

The New Republic

Anti-Semitism poses growing threat to Jews

The future of Jewish life in western nations is being called into question by rising anti-Semitism, according to an analysis of global attacks and abuse, as Jews in many countries feel an “increasing sense of emergency.”

Al Jazeera

Poll details spread of anti-Semitism in Europe

CNN

Tunisia cracks down on LGBTQ rights

Growing judicial harassment and a rise in arrests under an anti-sodomy law add to a climate of fear in Tunisia’s LGBTQ community, as the government invokes sharia law to shut down an LGBTQ rights group.

Guardian

Cambridge to study its historic ties to slavery

The University of Cambridge will conduct a two-year academic study of how much it benefited from the Atlantic slave trade and whether its scholarship reinforced race-based thinking during Britain’s colonial era.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Hong Kongers march against extradition law

Thousands of protesters marched through downtown Hong Kong amid fear that changes to an extradition law will threaten the territory’s independent legal system.

FOX News

In US, invalid criminal charges can linger

Guardian

Phone searches quadruple at US border

Searches of laptops and mobile phones at the U.S. border have nearly quadrupled since 2015, digital rights groups have claimed in a lawsuit alleging the searches are “unconstitutional.”

BBC

Yemen war dead could reach 233K by 2020

The death toll from the war in Yemen could soar to nearly a quarter of a million people by the end of 2019, the UN has warned, calling the conflict one of the “greatest preventable disasters facing humanity.”

The Independent

Kids born under ISIS become stateless

The Independent

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Trump to name Islamist group ‘terrorists’

The White House announced that the Trump administration is working to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, a move that would bring economic and travel sanctions against Egypt’s oldest Islamist movement.

BBC

Terrorists could be plotting attacks at tourist destinations

New York Post

Trump UN snub boosts repressive regimes

Guardian

NASA bought faulty rocket parts for 20 years

A NASA Launch Services Program investigation has revealed that a malfunction was caused by faulty aluminum materials. An Oregon-based company falsified aluminum certification tests for nearly two decades, and is responsible.

Engadget

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Poor sense of smell linked to mortality risk

A recent study that includes data from more than 2,000 older adults finds an association between poor sense of smell and an increased risk of death.

Medical News Today

Dogs can tune out noise to discern names

Experiments at the University of Maryland revealed that dogs can perceive their name spoken at the same intensity as or louder than background noise, an especially useful insight for people handling working or service dogs.

National Geographic

GLOBAL HEALTH

Scientists find antidote for lethal jellyfish

Researchers have found an antidote for the sting of the Australian box jellyfish, which carries enough venom to kill more than 60 people. A single sting from the creature causes excruciating pain and, in some cases, death.

Guardian

Sexual misconduct rife in US medical profession

The power wielded by medical school instructors and the high stakes faced by students create an environment in the medical profession where misconduct flourishes.

Bloomberg

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GOOD NEWS

British boy makes history with bionic arm

Eight-year-old British boy Freddie Cook has made medical history as the youngest and smallest person to be fitted with an advanced multigrip bionic arm.

CNN

Firefighter helps save neighbor’s home

When his neighbor’s house caught fire, off-duty volunteer firefighter Victor Esparza Jr., wearing only a t-shirt and shorts, grabbed a garden hose and fought the flames until the fire department arrived.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Mozambique faces ‘life-threatening’ crisis

The aid organization Save the Children says that the humanitarian situation in Mozambique is “life-threatening,” and that additional funds are needed to deal with the aftermath of Cyclone Kenneth.

BBC

Guide urges sustainable development goals

A new guide from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors urges philanthropic funders to align their missions and activities with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Bad harvest pushes N. Korea to ration food

Millions of North Koreans are being forced to rely on meagre rations after the nation’s worst harvest in a decade. The country is 1.36 million tons of food short following a series of weather disasters, compounded by longstanding international sanctions.

BBC

Scotland grants beavers protected status

Wildlife campaigners have hailed a “historic day for Scotland” as beavers are granted protected status a decade after their successful reintroduction in Argyll.

Guardian

Are companies illegally extracting water?

Lawyers for a northern New South Wales council are investigating claims that bottled water businesses have broken the law with recent groundwater extractions.

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Germany running short on skilled workers

How big is the shortage of qualified workers in Germany really? In some industries, the line of job seekers is running low. In many others, the problems are not as they seem and are often homemade.

Deutsche Welle

Danish fishermen fear Brexit could sink them

In the small fishing town of Thyboron on the northwestern coast of Denmark, many fishermen worry the British waters they have become increasingly dependent on will be out of reach when Britain leaves the EU.

Reuters

Key development challenges face far north

Devex

PepsiCo drops lawsuit against Indian farmers

CNNMoney

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Rescue workers transport Jakartans during a flood in 2013. Jakarta, widely seen as the world‘s fastest sinking city, may soon no longer be Indonesia’s capital, the country’s planning minister announced this week. Indonesian Minister of National Development and Planning Bamband Brodjonegoro said newly elected President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has decided to relocate the capital, although an alternative location has yet to be determined. Local media suggests Palangkaraya, on the island of Borneo about 860 miles northeast of Jakarta, is a frontrunner, the BBC reported. (Photo by Seika) Photo used under CC BY

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