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A boy tends to his herd in a cattle camp in South Sudan. Many young boys spend months at a time at such camps, looking after the cattle that are central to the livelihoods of thousands of families. (Photo by Alun McDonald / Oxfam)

Eco-blowback: Mutiny in the land of wind turbines

Germany plans to build 60,000 new wind turbines, but local residents are up in arms, costs are skyrocketing and Germany’s determination to phase out nuclear power is in danger.

ABC News

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Wind farms cleared for building by 3-D radar

Scotsman

Natural defenses can limit coastal damage

Reefs, dunes and marshes are key to protecting lives and property against storm surges and long-term sea-level rise.

Nature

Saudi Arabia warns pilgrims over coronavirus

Health officials in Saudi Arabia have asked pilgrims visiting its holy sites to wear masks in crowded places to stop the spread of the MERS coronavirus.

BBC

UAE reports a MERS coronavirus infection, brings global total to 82 cases

Global Dispatch

Predatory lionfish now a confirmed invader in the deep Atlantic

Scientists have confirmed that the hardy, Indo-Pacific fish that has invaded waters off the U.S. East Coast is now living deep in the Atlantic, possibly imperiling smaller fish there.

Christian Science Monitor

New language discovered in desert town

It’s spoken only by a few hundred people living in a desert community, and almost exclusively by those under the age of 35. But the discovery of a new language in Australia is causing excitement among linguists.

The Daily Telegraph

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

UN framework to give 15 million people access to HIV antiretroviral treatment

The United Nations launched a new framework which seeks to give 15 million people with HIV/AIDS access to antiretroviral treatment by the year 2015.

UN News Centre

Aid agency: Syria war imperils education of 2.5 million children

More than a fifth of Syria’s schools have been destroyed or made unusable in more than two years of conflict, jeopardizing the education of 2.5 million young people, Save The Children aid agency reported.

Reuters

In southern Syria, rebels Say US support is critical

NPR

HUMAN RIGHTS

Congo-Kinshasa: need to protect DRC’s school girls from sexual assault

In some Democratic Republic of Congo schools, teachers and senior authorities are using their status to abuse girls who do not know their rights, according to the African Association for the Defense of Human Rights.

allAfrica.com

Egypt, Jordan, Iraq seek to stem Syrian refugee flood

Syria’s raging civil war has seen neighbors flooded with refugees. Egypt has become the latest regional country to take steps to limit refugee access.

Christian Science Monitor

The Don who‘s taken charge of Jordan’s biggest refugee camp

NPR

Return to Lebanon: A country fighting someone else’s war

BBC

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

New labor norms could hurt Bangladesh

The decisions of the U.S. and the European Union to demand implementation of controversial labor standards in Bangladesh may pose a serious threat to the global trading system.

Inter Press Service

Africa’s economy ‘seeing fastest growth’

Africa’s economy is growing faster than any other continent, according to the African Development Bank.

BBC

Agriculture and manufacturing offer opportunities for African trade

Guardian

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Effectiveness of ‘aid for trade’ reviewed by donors and recipients

A review of aid for trade’s role in helping poor people sees the EU being positive but some NGOs questioning its performance.

Guardian

US slams Syria, Iran bid for Human Rights Council

The U.S. says that Syria and Iran don’t deserve positions on the U.N.’s Human Rights Council because they are under investigation themselves.

ABC News

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GOOD NEWS

Anti-sectarianism during a time of religious charity

In Lebanon, local projects promote an anti-sectarian message that highlights that helping the country’s orphans is a way of promoting social stability for all Lebanese.

Daily Star

Kenyan prisoners take the law into their own hands

In Kenya, a team of prisoner paralegals have launched more than 3,000 successful appeals, even though they are not fully qualified lawyers.

BBC

NONPROFITS AND NGOS

Ikea brings flatpack innovation to emergency refugee shelters

Swedish furniture giant Ikea has teamed up with the U.N. Refugee Agency to develop a longer-lasting flatpack shelter.

Guardian

Eco - fish

The MSC is a international non-profit organisation. It was set up in the late ’90s with the specific intention of incentivising and promoting sustainable fishing practices.

ABC Landline

ENVIRONMENT

European Investment Bank ‘funding polluters’

The European Investment Bank is facing criticism for its funding of fossil fuel projects and its weaker standards for lending to coal plants than currently proposed in both the U.S. and Canada.

Inter Press Service

Urban populations on the rise

While less than one-third of the world’s population lived in cities in 1950, about two thirds of humanity is expected to live in urban areas by 2030. Most of that urbanization is taking place in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

National Geographic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

What if you could learn everything?

How a new technology that figures out just how your mind works is about to make us all a whole lot smarter.

Newsweek

Air pollution responsible for more than 2 million deaths worldwide each year

More than two million deaths occur worldwide each year as a direct result of human-caused outdoor air pollution, a new study has found.

ScienceDaily

Photo of the Day

The sweet potato is safeguarding children’s sight and improving the income of families in communities across Uganda, Mozambique and other countries in Africa. Vitamin A intake among young children doubled in households that grew them. (Photo by Gates Foundation)

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