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A farmer in Ethiopia. A shift in the local climate is bringing changes to how crops grew 20 years ago. Research showed about 90 percent of farmers in the Choke area perceived an increase in temperatures over the past 20 to 30 years, in line with scientifically observed data. In some areas, yields have declined, tipping them from having a food surplus to a food deficit within 20 years. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

Ethiopian farmers face challenges as highlands warm

As the climate shifts and population grows, land in Ethiopia’s Choke Mountain watershed is becoming degraded, causing problems here and further downstream on the Nile.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

France urged to act on refugee living conditions

France must act on the “dire” living conditions of refugees and migrants sleeping rough in Calais and stop systematically evicting people from tents in violation of the right to adequate housing, the UN’s housing envoy has said.

Guardian

Thousands of refugees trapped in detention at ‘serious risk’ as fighting erupts in Tripoli

The Independent

Canada to reject refugees with claims in other countries

BBC

Power failures cause water crisis in Venezuela

Repeated power grid failures in Venezuela have led to water shortages across the country. With no electricity, pumping stations cease to function, severely limiting the water services.

Al Jazeera

Women, kids living in crowded ISIS camp

The al-Hol camp in Syria is an overflowing vessel of anger and unanswered questions. Inside are the lost women and children of ISIS, abandoned by their men, their nightmare caliphate and their governments.

BBC

Teenage brides trapped between ISIS and its victors

Reuters

US ban on transgender troops goes into effect

The Pentagon’s controversial policy for transgender service members that keeps them from serving in the nation’s military openly has gone into effect.

CBS News

Natural disasters can increase inequality

Natural disasters and subsequent recovery efforts consistently exacerbate economic inequality, according to a growing body of research. Low-income Americans experience the biggest drop in their credit scores following “medium-sized” disasters.

PBS

HUMAN RIGHTS

Syria’s sexual violence survivors seek justice

As a report reveals new allegations of sexual torture, rape and forced nudity across 30 Syrian detention centers, sexual violence survivors are seeking justice.

Deutsche Welle

Controversial Brunei law aimed at ‘prevention’

Brunei’s foreign ministry has said implementing Sharia law is about prevention rather than punishment, after intense criticism of its decision to punish adultery and sex between men by stoning them to death.

BBC

Study finds 3 million LGBTQ people live in rural America

NPR

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

‘Upskirting’ now a crime in England, Wales

Upskirting is now a criminal offense in England and Wales after a campaign by a woman targeted at a music festival. Offenders will face up to two years in prison for taking an image or video under somebody’s clothing.

BBC

Community service for petty crimes in Nigeria

Nigeria is grappling with overcrowded prisons and a backlog in court cases. In a bid to change this, Oyo State is now punishing lighter crimes with community service rather than jail time.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Undersea robots saving Great Barrier Reef

A team of Australian scientists built an underwater robot that can deliver larval coral to the Great Barrier reef, where they hope it will help restore the reef to some of its former glory, before it was ravaged by climate change.

Futurism

New human species discovered in Philippines

In a jungle cave in the Philippines, scientists have discovered fossils of what may be a new human species they call Homo luzonensis. The teeth and bones combine primitive and modern traits in a way never previously seen together.

Inside Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Pollution results in 4M child asthma cases

Four million children develop asthma every year as a result of air pollution from cars and trucks, equivalent to 11,000 new cases a day, a landmark study has found.

Guardian

Chad fights to protect children against measles

Health workers are doing their best to administer measles vaccines to poor kids in Eastern Chad. It’s a challenge to keep vaccines cold to maintain its potency in a region where electricity is unreliable or non-existent.

Channel NewsAsia

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GOOD NEWS

Libraries to take donated food for overdue fees

As part of National Library Week, for a limited time this month, libraries across the U.S. will accept an alternative form of payment from patrons with overdue books - donated food. This will then be donated to local food banks.

MSN

Injured veteran finds purpose saving birds

Disabled Gulf War veteran, Robert Vallieres hikes for miles to track and rehabilitate the peregrine falcon and the bald eagle, two species nearly wiped out by the pesticide DDT in the 1960s.

MSN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Taylor Swift donates $113K for anti-LGBTQ law

Taylor Swift made a surprise $113,000 donation to the Tennessee Equality Project, a Nashville group which convened more than 100 religious leaders to denounce six anti-LGBT bills, going through state legislature.

Guardian

Xiaomi founder to donate $1B bonus to charity

The founder and CEO of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is receiving a huge bonus for a year in which the company went public. And he’s donating all of it to charity.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

UK students bring fresh wave of climate strikes

Thousands of students and activists have taken to the streets of more than 50 British towns and cities demanding urgent action on climate change for the third time in months.

Guardian

4,500 Amazon employees call on the company to take climate action

EcoWatch

Kenya won’t penalize poachers with death

Articles shared tens of thousands of times online have reported that Kenya is planning to introduce the death penalty for convicted wildlife poachers. But Kenya’s tourism minister confirmed to AFP that there’s no such plan.

AFP

Rare vipers are being poached in Kenya—but some people are grateful

National Geographic

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

USA billionaires call for upgrades to capitalism

American billionaires are calling for changes to the system that enabled them to get rich. Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon, Ray Dalio, Bill Gates say that capitalism in its current form doesn’t work for the rest of US.

CNBC

Taxes in Sweden: How one Nordic country balances growth with high taxes

CNBC

Fewer millennials are making it to middle class

Compared to baby boomers, the share of millennials in the middle class have decreased. Middle-income households are disappearing in developed countries around the world, according to a new report.

CNN

In Ethiopia, Islamic banking offers inclusion

Ethiopia’s measured embrace of Islamic banking is offering entrepreneurial-minded Muslims a gateway to financial inclusion, though a fully-fledged Islamic bank has yet to take root.

Al Jazeera

Photo of the Day

A health worker administers MenAfriVac™ shot in a pilot immunization campaign in Burkina Faso in September 2010. (Photo by World Health Organization) Photo used under CC BY

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