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India’s highly endangered gharial crocodile, among the giant river animals at risk of extinction. According to the first comprehensive study on the subject, global populations of great freshwater species have plunged 97 percent since 1970. (Photo by Mike Prince) Photo used under CC BY

World’s giant river animals on the verge of extinction

Global populations of great freshwater species, from catfish to stingrays, have plunged by 97 percent since 1970, according to a comprehensive study. Some species, such as the Yangtze dolphin, have gone extinct.

Guardian

The bonobos’ fight for survival

Deutsche Welle

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In India, Renew Ganga aims to reduce plastic waste in India’s sacred Ganges river

National Geographic

Madagascar farmers try to save sea cucumbers

BBC

Africa is awash in sunshine — energy that will help empower the continent

Forbes

India’s far-right Hindus push population control

In India, Hindu nationalist groups are demanding a population control law, an effort that reflects an Islamophobic belief at the core of right-wing Hindu organizations: that Muslims are trying to “overtake” Hindus.

Al Jazeera

China builds more Uighur detention camps

Despite a global human rights outcry, China is building more secret “re-education camps” to detain Uighur Muslims, as Xi Jinping steps up efforts to wipe out political and ethnic threats.

The Independent

Torrential rains, mudslides kill dozens in India

In South Asia’s latest rain-related disaster, at least 66 people have died and some 360,000 have moved to relief camps following flash floods and mudslides in southern India.

ABC News

Nigeria seeks to de-radicalize former fighters

Nigeria’s Operation Safe Corridor aims to facilitate the rehabilitation of former Boko Haram members. However, many victims remain hostile toward ex-insurgents.

Deutsche Welle

HUMAN RIGHTS

Iraqis choosing refugee camps over homes

Corpses and destroyed buildings are still a regular sight in areas liberated from Islamic State. Many Iraqi families are leaving their homes and returning to the displacement camps for security and a better life.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Asian women trafficked to Kenya’s dance bars

A rising number of women and girls are leaving South Asian nations such as Nepal, India and Pakistan to work in Bollywood-style dance bars in Kenya’s adult entertainment industry, many illegally, anti-trafficking activists and police say.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Lebanon paper publishes ‘no news’ edition

Lebanon’s only English daily “refrained from publishing news articles in its print edition” to protest against the country’s deteriorating economic, political condition. Each page bore a phrase relating to a country’s problem.

Al Jazeera

Brazilians not likely to boycott deforestation

Despite increasing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest basin, Brazil’s government does not expect an international boycott of Brazilian products, the president’s spokesman says.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Implant, smartphone manipulate brain cells

A team of scientists has invented a device that can control neural circuits using a tiny brain implant controlled by a smartphone. The device could potentially treat Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, addiction, depression, and pain.

ScienceDaily

‘Atomik’ vodka produced from Chernobyl grain

Scientists have produced vodka from grain grown in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl. They say that the alcohol is free of dangerous radioactivity and could be mass produced to help economic recovery in the blighted region.

Guardian

New bioprinting technique can rebuild hearts

A team of U.S. researchers has developed a new technique that makes use of a support gel to 3D print heart tissue containing collagen. The method can produce parts of the heart, from capillaries to the full organ.

physicsworld

GLOBAL HEALTH

Burundi malaria outbreak at epidemic levels

A serious outbreak of malaria in Burundi has reached epidemic proportions, killing almost as many people as the Ebola crisis in the nearby Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Guardian

Burundi’s YouTube star dies of malaria aged six

BBC

Air pollution giving a 3rd of EU children asthma

Up to a third of new cases of childhood asthma in Europe could be caused by air pollution, a study has found. Thousands of children from ages one to 14 are believed to have been made ill each year by breathing in pollutants.

The Independent

Indian city Pune hits brake on car traffic to curb pollution

Deutsche Welle

Marijuana legalization reduces opioid deaths

A new study finds that marijuana access leads to reductions in opioid-related deaths. Legalization and access to recreational marijuana reduced annual opioid mortality in the range of 20 percent to 35 percent.

ScienceDaily

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GOOD NEWS

Ikea designing homes for people with dementia

Furniture giant Ikea and Boklok, a construction company is launching a new style of home for dementia patients that makes housing sustainable and affordable.

CNN

Grandson-grandma duo travel across country

A grandson started taking his 89-year-old grandma on road trips after she told him she’s never seen a mountain. They have visited 29 national parks, and haven’t stopped since.

Fox 5 NY

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Book chain baron donates $1M in scholarships

Leonard Riggio, the founder and chairman of Barnes and Noble book chain, recently donated $1 million toward scholarships for students at Kingsborough Community College.

Brooklyn Paper

Nonprofit will pay kidney donors’ lost wages

The National Kidney Registry announced that all kidney donors giving through swaps will be eligible for Donor Shield, a program through which donors can get reimbursed for lost wages, transportation, lodging expenses.

Vox

ENVIRONMENT

US authorizes ‘cyanide bombs’ to kill animals

The Trump administration has reauthorized government officials to use controversial poison devices, dubbed “cyanide bombs” by critics, to kill coyotes, foxes and other animals across the U.S.

Guardian

African Penguin: Iconic, beautiful and endangered

CNN

Frequent marine heatwaves kill coral instantly

Increasingly frequent marine heatwaves can lead to the almost instant death of corals, scientists working on the Great Barrier Reef have found.

BBC

Giant freshwater fishes in alarming decline

Nature

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

US sanctions may worsen Venezuela suffering

UN’s human rights chief has criticized the latest U.S. sanctions against Venezuela saying they would intensify the suffering of millions. The sanctions would hit the most vulnerable sections of society.

BBC

Amid swine fever, China food prices jump 9.1%

China’s July food prices jumped 9.1 percent from a year ago, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed, as the country battles soaring pork prices amid the spread of African swine fever.

CNBC

Photo of the Day

Mohammed, a malaria patient, recovers at a Burundian run clinic in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, in April, 2013. According to figures gathered by the WHO, almost 6 million cases have been recorded since the first week of January to the end of July in Burundi. (Photo by Tobin Jones) Photo used under CC BY

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