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Atlantic spotted dolphins, Bermuda. An EU-funded research program will examine, in depth, the effects of climate change on Atlantic Ocean plants and animals. (Photo by Gavin Harrison) Photo used under CC BY

Global team to research climate, Atlantic health

A huge international research program, funded by the EU and involving more than 30 partners, has been launched to assess the health of the Atlantic Ocean and the effects of climate change on its plants and animals.

BBC

The next wave of climate refugees

The Atlantic

Dominican total abortion ban hurts teenage girls

A report finds the Dominican Republic’s total abortion ban, along with inadequate sex education in schools and obstacles to accessing contraception, are fueling teenage pregnancy and unsafe abortion in the country.

The Independent

Religious symbols ban incites anger in Quebec

Canada’s Quebec province has passed a controversial law banning some public sector employees from wearing religious symbols during work hours, prompting an outcry from civil liberties and Muslim groups.

Al Jazeera

Quebec Bill 21: Is it OK for public servants to wear religious symbols?

BBC

African FGM survivors demand trauma support

African survivors of female genital mutilation said mental health services are their biggest need and urged governments and charities to provide support for dealing with trauma.

Reuters

Special section:

The Nigerian refugee who saved her daughters from FGM

Al Jazeera

Nigerians lament suicide attacks, state inaction

Three suicide bombers, believed to be Boko Haram members, killed at least 20 villagers in northeastern Nigeria. Residents and experts cite state inaction and underdevelopment as enablers of continued Boko Haram violence.

Al Jazeera

Sudan’s revolutionaries offline but not silenced

BBC

HUMAN RIGHTS

‘Married’ Pakistani women endure rape in China

Pakistani women who marry Chinese men are finding themselves “trafficked” into abusive marriages, prostitution. Officials have ordered investigators to remain silent so as to not jeopardize Pakistan’s economic ties with China.

FOX News

Environment reporters face harassment, murder

Thirteen journalists who were investigating environmental damage have been killed in recent years and many more are suffering violence, harassment, intimidation and lawsuits, according to a study.

Guardian

Haiti: Journalists demand police protection

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Shortages, hyperinflation ravaging Venezuela

Venezuela’s ongoing economic crisis has led to widespread shortages of basic goods and massive hyperinflation. While some critics blame government corruption, the government blames U.S. sanctions.

NBCNews.com

As Peru tightens its border, desperate Venezuelans cling to asylum lifeline

Reuters

Slovakia’s first female president sworn in

Anti-corruption activist Zuzana Caputova kicked off her five-year term as first female president of Slovakia by calling for state officials incapable of standing up to corruption to lose their jobs.

Deutsche Welle

Former first lady leads in Guatemala elections

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

First lung map gives new insights into asthma

In a first, researchers have mapped building blocks of the human lungs and airways, in both asthma patients and normal people. They also discovered an entirely new cell state that produces mucus in asthma patients.

Medical Xpress

New vaccine turns on immune system to kill cancer cells

YouTube

Farmers use the sun to help water their crops

Khethworks, a project that began at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has developed a solar-powered irrigation system that allows farmers to water their crops without depending on seasonal rains or expensive fuel.

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Ugandan medics tackling Ebola lack supplies

Medical workers leading Uganda’s effort against Ebola lament what they call limited support, and are wondering where the millions of dollars spent on preparing for Ebola have gone if a hospital on the front line lacks basic supplies.

Associated Press

Prescription drugs sold illegally in Uganda

BBC

Kenya, Tanzania on high alert as illegal border crossings bring Ebola to Uganda

Breitbart

Suicide rates among young highest since 2000

Suicide rates among young people are rising, reaching the highest levels since 2000, a study has found. But most alarming, the researchers said, was a 21 percent rise in boys aged 15-19 dying by suicide in 2017 from the year before.

NBCNews.com

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GOOD NEWS

Mozambique park wipes out elephant poaching

One of Africa’s largest protected wilderness areas, Mozambique’s Niassa Reserve has marked an entire year without finding a single elephant killed by poachers.

ABC News

Paris zoo gives orangutan a 50th birthday party

FOX News

Incubator helps immigrants set up businesses

A business incubator based in San Francisco’s Mission District, La Cocina, has been helping local food entrepreneurs, many of whom are low-income immigrant women, develop their small businesses.

NPR

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Chelsea owner gives 5M to fight anti-semitism

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is donating $5 million to the Jewish Agency For Israel in a bid to help fight anti-Semitism across the world. This is the largest ever donation received by the body.

CNN

Italy’s adopts decree to fine NGO rescue boats

Italy has introduced a new security decree that would mean NGO rescue boats that bring migrants to Italy without permission could face fines of up to $55,000. The U.N. says this penalizes rescues at sea.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Melting Arctic releasing disease, nuclear waste

As rising temperatures cause the Arctic ice to melt, it is freeing frozen toxins, nuclear waste, and enough sequestered carbon to double the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere today, according to BBC news.

Futurism

Photo of sled dogs walking through water shows reality of Greenland’s melting ice sheet

CNN

Climate change threatens 40% of primates

As cyclones and droughts are expected to grow in frequency and intensity while global temperatures rise, humankind’s closest relatives will become increasingly vulnerable to extinction, scientists say.

CNN

Europe seas to lose one third of life

Deutsche Welle

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Federal wage sets new record for not rising

The federal minimum wage will set a new record: Since Franklin Roosevelt introduced a baseline pay after the Great Depression, it will have been nine years, 10 months and 23 days since Congress last increased it.

CBS News

Georgia gets female lifeguards for ‘equality’

Up to 20 female lifeguards will start patrolling Georgia’s crowded beaches, joining a male-dominated rescue corps. This, in light of the nation passing anti-discrimination laws in an effort to move closer to the European Union.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photo of the Day

A woman picks cotton as part of the annual harvest in Uzbekistan in June, 2018. Many rural women serve as voluntary cotton pickers to supplement their income; however, government-compelled forced labor in the annual cotton harvest remains common in Central Asia. (Photo by Simon Buxton/Anti-Slavery International) Photo used under CC BY

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