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Report spells out how climate crisis is killing us

The medical journal The Lancet just released its annual report on climate change and human health. The massive study looks at 41 indicators, including extreme weather, energy trends, and agricultural impacts. The collective implications are ugly.

Wired

Bacteria may contribute more to climate change as planet heats up

ScienceDaily

4 dead as ‘tinder box-like conditions’ fuel catastrophic bushfires in Australia

NPR

Cold fusion 1: A potential energy game-changer

Big players are quietly investing substantial sums into cold fusion research, positioning themselves for what could turn out to be a major game-changer on the global energy scene. Japan and the U.S. are way ahead.

Asia Times Online

Elite police force spreads terror in Venezuela barrios

Reuters probed 20 killings by a police squad accused of summary executions in restive Venezuelan neighborhoods. Cops say they acted in self-defense. The official story is contradicted by dozens of witness accounts and exclusive video footage.

Reuters

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Venezuela’s mass migration poses a danger to the Western Hemisphere

The Hill

HK protesters fortify campus occupations

The threat of violence hung over Hong Kong Thursday evening as thousands of student protesters prepared to face off with riot police, amid a continued occupation of several of the city’s most prestigious universities.

CNN

Zimbabweans still long for economic change

The celebrations that followed the ouster of President Robert Mugabe are a distant memory as Zimbabwe grapples with yet another economic crisis.

Al Jazeera

China economic decline ‘yet to hit bottom’

The hope that China’s economy had put the worst behind it was dashed by a series of disappointing economic figures that rounded off a miserable week for Beijing policymakers.

South China Morning Post

HUMAN RIGHTS

Japanese women protest workplace glasses ban

A TV news story on Japanese companies barring women from wearing eyeglasses while on the clock sparked a backlash, as Japanese women frustrated by the strict workplace dress codes took to Twitter to voice their displeasure.

Forbes

Afghan pedophile ring abused over 500 boys

A pedophile ring involved in the abuse of at least 546 boys from six schools has been discovered in Afghanistan’s Logar province.

Guardian

Mental health patients tortured in Nigeria

A Human Rights Watch report said thousands of Nigerians with mental health conditions face prolonged detention, chaining, physical and sexual violence or forced treatment, including electroshock therapy.

Guardian

US has detained over 60K migrant children

New government data shows 69,550 migrant children have been held in US government custody in 2019 alone. Children detained spent more time in shelters, away from their families than in prior years.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

China urged to stop spying on ethnic minorities

World leaders must take a tougher line on China’s use of high-tech surveillance to monitor and crackdown on its ethnic minorities, a Uighur activist urged after his mother was detained and then imprisoned.

Place

Mexico looks to reform trafficking laws

Sex workers could benefit from plans to reform Mexico’s much-criticized human trafficking law, outlined in an interior ministry document obtained by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Sri Lankans vote for a new president

Sri Lankans will go to the polls to elect a new president, a landmark vote as the island nation struggles with a sluggish economy, security challenges and increasing political polarization.

Al Jazeera

Singapore court to hear cases seeking to decriminalize gay sex

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Facebook removes child porn pieces from site

Facebook removed tens of millions of posts, photos and videos over the past six months for violating its terms of service that restrict the use of child pornography, drug and gun sales, and terrorism.

Forbes

Ebola vaccine arrives in Europe

The European Commission has just approved Ervebo, an Ebola vaccine, for use in humans, the first of its kind.

Forbes

Californians turn to tech as wildfires worsen

Two Californians created a COPE team - Citizens Organized to Prepare for Emergencies - which links residents and authorities to share advice on everything from how to pack evacuation bags to how to find family during a fire.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Australians ordered to flee raging wildfires

Sydney Morning Herald

GLOBAL HEALTH

Drug resistance a rising threat in Canada

Drug resistance is an “existential threat” that could have a wide-ranging impact on Canadian health, economy, and society.

BBC

Kenya pledges to end FGM by 2022

Kenya‘s president has promised to end female genital mutilation by 2022, a goal women’s rights campaigners said was unrealistic due to insecurity and high prevalence rates in some parts of the east African nation.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Son’s polio transforms Nigerian antivaxer

Adamu Misa used to chase health workers away from his home in northern Nigeria but now campaigns for vaccines after his 8-year-old son contracted polio.

BBC

Country’s wealth determines vaccine support

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Police train to work with autistic community

Police departments, state governments, universities, hospitals and researchers are beginning to come together to break that cycle of arrests and improve relations between the autistic community and police.

OZY

Sports contests mindful of LGBTQ athletes

Sports organizations are debating how best to accommodate gender minorities, with LGBTQ groups calling for greater inclusion while some athletes and women’s groups fear such changes are unfair to other female players.

Openly

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Couple donates $106M to brain research

Billionaire philanthropists Joan and Sandy Weill are donating $106 million to launch a research initiative at three universities aimed at finding treatments for brain disorders like epilepsy and Alzheimer’s disease.

Associated Press

Couple opens group home for homeless LGBTQ youth

Today

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change is now a health emergency

Climate change poses a major threat to the health of the world’s children and may shape the future of a whole generation if global temperatures are not kept well below 35°F, new research shows.

Deutsche Welle

Cleaning up Brazil’s waste management

After the closure of the largest garbage dump in Latin America just outside Brasilia, a new project is pioneering sustainable waste management.

Deutsche Welle

Boy who risks his life to collect plastic waste

BBC

Fossils could teach us about climate change

Rare dragonfly fossils dating from about 50 million years ago show how life recovered after the mass extinction of dinosaurs and could help us gain better a understanding of climate change.

CNN

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Growing pains hit Cambodian businesses

Businesses with a social purpose across Southeast Asia struggle to juggle more money and staff with their ideals of improving the lives of vulnerable communities.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Xinjiang cotton sparks concern over ‘forced labor’

BBC

Women are dumping babies in the Nairobi river

Abortions are illegal in Kenya, unless a woman’s life or health is in danger. Safe procedures at clinics cost roughly 20,000 Kenyan shillings, whereas unsafe abortions are roughly a tenth of that price.

Telegraph.co.uk

Millions without access to contraceptives

Guardian

Photo of the Day

Children in Akha Pala, Lao People‘s Democratic Republic. The World Bank’s Poverty Reduction Fund, established in 2002, is the largest multi-sector community-driven development project in Lao PDR. PRF initially focused on small-scale community infrastructure and capacity building for project planning and implementation. In 2012, PRF also initiated community-driven livelihood and nutrition activities. Thus far, 1.2 million people have directly benefited from PRF activities over the past 15 years. (Photo by E. Thomas Gilliard) Photo used under CC BY

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