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Brazil’s deforestation rose 28 percent this year and marks the first year of increase since 2009 with 2,255 square miles compared to 1,765 square miles last year. (Photo by Matt Zimmerman)

Brazil: Amazon deforestation rose 28 percent in a year

Brazil says the rate of deforestation in the Amazon increased by 28 percent last year, after years of decline. Activists blame the increase on a controversial reform to Brazil’s forest protection law.

BBC

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Interactive map: global forest change

University of Maryland

African delegates under pressure to leave UN climate talks

African delegates have been encouraged by nongovernmental groups to withdraw from the U.N. climate negotiations, after the process has so far failed to yield any new pledges on climate finance.

RTCC

Dominique Kuitsouc on Central Africa climate change

SciDev

Aid flows as Philippines struggles to rebuild

Long-delayed emergency supplies flowed into the typhoon-ravaged central Philippines, reaching desperate families who had to fend for themselves for days.

Reuters

Philippines reflects on traumatic week

Financial Times

Online volunteers map Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan

Guardian

Myanmar’s president pardons 69 political prisoners

Myanmar’s president pardoned 69 political prisoners, including two grandsons of a former dictator, as part of a promise to free all such detainees by the end of the year.

Denver Post

Lack of toilets signals deadly crisis

World Toilet Day serves as a reminder that for the 2.4 billion people who don’t have access to basic sanitation, lack of toilet facilities is no laughing matter. In fact, it’s a deadly serious health crisis.

NBCNews.com

World Toilet Day no joke for billions without sanitation

IPS

Investing in toilets could help save the world

PolicyMic

NGOS AND NONPROFITS

Software by nonprofit helps automate, speed-up disaster aid

A piece of software developed by a Canadian nonprofit organization is helping humanitarian aid agencies to improve the logistics of aid distribution in disaster-affected countries.

SciDev

How open data empowers citizens of poorer nations

After 400 children died of lead poisoning, and others became became sick when gold mining operations ran amok in Nigeria in 2010, a local nonprofit organization swung into action.

NewScientist

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Typhoon disaster calls on us to step up

Another disaster calls us to act. This time it’s in the Philippines, where over 10 million have been affected by Typhoon Haiyan that destroyed entire communities.

Hamilton Spectator

Tom Jones joins Britain‘s entrepeneurs to aid children’s charity

The Education Secretary told a charity dinner that business success and philanthropy went hand in hand. He said the country should praise people working to build a better U.K.

Daily & Sunday Express

HUMAN RIGHTS

Indonesia’s forest communities victims of ‘legal land grabs’

Indonesia’s rainforests are facing “legal land grabs”, allege NGOs. Its ancient communities are finding that their ancestral lands are slipping into the hands of foreign companies for oil palm cultivation.

IPS

In Indonesia, an Afghan refugee family’s uneasy odyssey

Christian Science Monitor

China to ease one-child policy, abolish labor camps

After months of hints, China announced it will relax its decades-long one-child policy and abolish labor camps in an effort to improve human rights, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

CNN

Revolution, religion, and the consequences of an abortion ban

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

China to ease its one-child policy

CBS News

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Afghanistan: the rise of a narco state

2013 has been an all-time record year for Afghan poppy farmers, according to a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. The area under cultivation grew by 36 percent over 2012.

Global Post

Korea cites ‘remarkable success’ in developing free trade zone with China

Although China has become increasingly frustrated with the North’s nuclear tests and missile launches, it appears that Beijing has been deepening its economic ties with Pyongyang.

Business Korea

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Needed: politics for better governance

The absence of viable third parties have led many to conclude that the next general election is destined to be a two-party race.

Trinidad Express

Bid for more sanctions on Iran could reach Senate next week

Legislation to impose tough new sanctions on Iran could come to the Senate floor next week, just as diplomats head to Geneva for a third round of talks aimed at curbing Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons work.

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Rami G. Khouri):

Hezbollah’s strengths create weaknesses

Daily Star

Editorial:

Why US must help Afghanistan kick the heroin trade habit

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Saudi review: It’s time to rethink US relations with an ally

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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GOOD NEWS

Pen pal program helps Chinese youths affected by AIDS

The Queens, N.Y.,-based China AIDS Fund fosters friendships between HIV/AIDS affected children in Henan, China, and American youths.

Christian Science Monitor

US destroys six-ton ivory stockpile

The United States has destroyed six tons of confiscated elephant ivory, in a move wildlife groups hailed as a bold message to criminal traffickers that the ivory is worthless.

Yahoo! News

ENVIRONMENT

Proposed Illinois fracking rules released to public

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources published a first draft of Illinois’ rules for high-volume oil and gas drilling, and environmental groups quickly criticized them as violating the spirit of regulations.

BusinessWeek

Ocean’s carbon dioxide uptake can impair digestion in marine animal

Ocean acidification impairs digestion in marine organisms, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

ScienceDaily

Japan drastically dials back climate-change emissions target

Japan’s decision to drastically scale back its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions could hurt efforts to craft a global deal to fight climate change, delegates at U.N. talks said.

Seattle Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Better batteries through biology? Modified viruses boost battery performance

MIT researchers have found a way to boost lithium-air battery performance, with the help of modified viruses.

ScienceDaily

Molten salts could improve fuel economy

An emerging class of engine lubricants with a radically different chemical makeup could significantly improve the fuel economy of cars, according to a recent report.

LiveScience

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