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A dog surrounded by trash in Chiangmai, Thailand. Plastic waste imports into Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam jumped from mid-2017 to early 2018, leading to illegal operations dumping and open-burning. The top exporters of plastic waste analyzed for the report included the United States, Britain, Germany and Japan. (Photo by Cynthia Chang) Photo used under CC BY

Plastic dumping in Asia wrecking crops, health

The world’s recyclable plastic is being shipped to Asia where it is illegally dumped, buried or burned in the country with the lightest regulations, environmentalists warned.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Plastic in paradise: the battle for the Galápagos Islands’ future

YouTube

Food insecure kids likely face low self esteem

Children with insecurities about access to food show signs of low self-esteem and are less likely to make healthy choices for themselves, according to new Canadian research.

Global News

Climate change deepening global wealth inequality

Scientists have long predicted that warmer temperatures caused by climate change will have the biggest impact on the world’s poorest, most vulnerable people. New research now indicates that’s already happened over the last several decades.

TIME

Waikiki Beach ‘could soon be underwater’ because of rising sea levels caused by climate change

The Independent

This is what sea level rise will do to coastal cities

YouTube

Kentucky Derby drawing human trafficking

Traffickers are likely to prey on vulnerable young women and children at this year’s Kentucky Derby, state and local officials have warned, and urged spectators to be alert.

U.S. News & World Report

Mexico detains hundreds of Central Americans

Mexican police have detained more than 300 Central American migrants in a caravan traveling towards the U.S. border. Several thousand people are heading north to escape violence and poverty in their home countries.

Deutsche Welle

Japan recognizes Ainu as indigenous people

A bill passed in Japan, for the first time has officially recognized the Ainu of Hokkaido as an “indigenous” people of Japan.

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

US threatens to veto UN resolution on rape

The U.S. is threatening to veto a United Nations resolution on fighting rape as a weapon of war because it uses the terms “reproductive and sexual health,” language the Trump administration says is pro-abortion.

Guardian

Argentina continues to obstruct legal abortions

Al Jazeera

Death toll in Yemen soars past 70K, report says

Rights groups report that the death toll from the ongoing war in Yemen now exceeds 70,000, with 10,000 killed in the past five months alone. They warn that landmines in the country cause hundreds of casualties and block aid.

The Independent

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Comedian wins Ukrainian presidential election

Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian who plays the country’s president on a TV show and has no prior political experience, has won Ukraine’s presidential election in a landslide, according to a national exit poll.

ABC News

Ukraine’s Zelensky plans to clean up parliament and military

BBC

Saudi Arabia executes 37 on terrorism charges

Saudi Arabia has said that it executed 37 of its citizens on charges of terrorism. Saudi Arabia executed 149 people last year, Amnesty International says.

BBC

Amnesty International reports global drop in executions

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Does a Mediterranean diet deter overeating?

In a recently published study, scientists at Wake Forest School of Medicine have found that nonhuman primates on a Mediterranean diet chose not to eat all the food available to them and maintained a normal weight.

MedicalXpress

Scientists create ‘pure’ plastic, free of additives

Only 10 percent of plastic in the U.S. gets recycled. Now, researchers have created a plastic with a special chemical bond that helps it separate out from additives, turning it back into a pure, valuable, reusable product.

Science Mag

GLOBAL HEALTH

Doctors test first malaria vaccine in Malawi

A large-scale pilot of what has been called the world’s first malaria vaccine to give partial protection to children has begun in Malawi, which is the first of three African countries chosen for the pilot to roll out the vaccine.

BBC

Leprosy cases going undiagnosed in Nepal

Two decades ago the WHO declared leprosy eliminated. Years later, Nepal’s government reported it had reached targets to eliminate the disease as a public health problem, but critics say such claims were misleading.

Guardian

Project celebrates people with leprosy who are not defined by their condition

Metro.co.uk

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GOOD NEWS

Lost puppy finds new life in refugee camp

World Food Programme’s staffers rescued a 4-week-old puppy, who has since been named Foxtrot. He now appears in online videos, as a voiceover narration talking about the work that WFP is doing to help Rohingya refugees.

NPR

Sherpa widows eye Everest to fight taboo

Two Nepali Sherpa women hope to conquer Mount Everest next month, finishing off the job their husbands started in a bid to empower fellow widows and prove there is life after death.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Malala debuts series spotlighting girls globally

Malala Fund, the nonprofit founded by Malala Yousafzai, debuted its first YouTube series, Roll Call. Malala introduces it as a series meant to give girls around the world a chance to tell their own stories in their own words.

Tubefilter

Nonprofit helps new immigrants find good jobs

The nonprofit, Upwardly Global, helps integrate refugees, people who have been granted asylum, and special immigrant visa holders into the U.S. work force.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

ENVIRONMENT

Native Americans fight for Utah wilderness

In the U.S., five Native American tribes are joining forces to fight plans to reduce wilderness areas in the state of Utah, where the government’s proposals could see ancestral lands opened up to mining.

Al Jazeera

100% renewable power means dirty mining

Salon

New Zealand finds its environment in peril

A report on the state of New Zealand’s environment finds that “decades of denial” has led to catastrophic biodiversity loss, polluted waterways and the destructive rise of the dairy industry and urban sprawl.

Guardian

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Algerian billionaires arrested in anti-graft drive

Algeria’s wealthiest businessman and four other billionaires close to former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who quit over mass protests, have been arrested as part of an anti-graft investigation, the state TV has said.

Reuters

Higher minimum wage tied to low suicide rates

Suicide rates grow more slowly in states that increase their minimum wage, according to a U.S. study that suggests this might be one strategy for curbing deaths by suicide.

Channel NewsAsia

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A malaria patient in Nyangaton, Ethiopia in July, 2014. According to the WHO, Africa carries a disproportionately high share of the global malaria burden. In 2017, the region was home to 92 percent of malaria cases and 93 percent of malaria deaths. (Photo by Rod Waddington) Photo used under CC BY

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