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Climate change protesters march in Paris. Record highs in Germany, France, Britain, Netherlands have been reported in the past few days. Climate specialists said such heatwaves are becoming more frequent as a result of global warming from greenhouse gas emissions. (Photo by Jeanne Menjoulet) Photo used under CC BY

Climate records tumble, EU swelters in heatwave

Soaring temperatures broke records in France, Britain and the Netherlands as a heatwave gripped Europe for the second time in a month, in what scientists said were becoming more frequent events as the planet heats up.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Why is it so hot and is climate change to blame?

BBC

Mumbai struggles with crumbling infrastructure

Recent building collapses are a sign of how worn out and vulnerable the physical infrastructure in Mumbai has become. Poor safety standards and planning, as well as overpopulation, are to blame.

Deutsche Welle

Satellite images reveal scale of Rohingya crisis

Analysis of satellite imagery has cast further doubt on promises that arrangements are being made by Myanmar for the safe and humane return of Rohingya Muslims.

Guardian

US Justice Department resumes death penalty

The U.S. Justice Department reinstated a two-decades long dormant policy to resume the federal government’s use of death penalty and immediately scheduled the executions for five death row federal inmates.

Reuters

Children joining Papua rebels in Indonesia

Evidence is emerging that children are joining the long-running conflict in the restive Indonesian province of West Papua.

Al Jazeera

US border tensions putting scientists at risk

Scientists working on the border between U.S. and Mexico face unique challenges when trying to study borderlands ecosystems, from outright harassment by Border Patrol officers to tight restrictions on travel.

PRI

Red flags on family separation were raised internally in Trump admin, documents show

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Russian women post bruised selfies for law

Thousands of Russian women are posting selfies on social media with their faces covered in fake blood and bruises in an effort to push the government to pass a domestic violence law. One in five of them have suffered violence.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

‘I didn’t want to die’: Why are Russians using bloody make-up to tackle domestic abuse?

BBC

Russians protesting over problems big and small

NPR

Indian PM urged to stop minority mob attacks

A group of Bollywood film makers, historians and citizens have written to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to stop mob attacks on minority Muslims and others at the bottom of society.

Reuters

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Puerto Rico’s governor resigns amid protests

Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced his resignation days after demonstrators at the island’s largest protest in recent history called for his ouster over a scandal involving leaked private chats, corruption and arrests.

NBCNews.com

Puerto Rico: Why people are protesting

BBC

Puerto Rico’s incoming governor faces crisis, wary populace

Associated Press

N. Korean missile launch new type of threat?

South Korea said that two projectiles launched by North Korea were a “new type of short-range missile” and posed a “military threat” which risked undermining the peace process on the Korean Peninsula.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Robotic prosthetic arm can now sense touch

A robotic arm created by a team at University of Utah, and controlled by thought, has enabled an amputee to touch and feel again. The prosthetic hand and fingers are controlled by electrodes implanted in the patient’s muscles.

The Independent

More water on the moon than earlier thought

A study conducted by researchers from the University of California determined that many of the shadowed craters on the moon are likely to hold millions of tons of ice, which could come in handy for future moon missions.

New York Post

GLOBAL HEALTH

Air pollution linked to 30K American deaths

Air pollution has been linked to more than 30,000 deaths in the United States in a single year — with low income areas the hardest hit, a new study suggests.

New York Post

Climate change may draw $200B vaccine boom

Higher temperatures across the globe could expose almost a billion more people to risks for diseases like Zika and Ebola by 2080 and that may be a boon for some drugmakers.

Bloomberg

Make environmental damage a war crime, say scientists

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Maria Caffrey):

I’m a scientist. Under Trump I lost my job for refusing to hide climate crisis facts

Guardian

Column (Jennifer Grygiel):

Facebook algorithm changes suppressed journalism and meddled with democracy

The Conversation

Column (James Dyke):

Europe is burning just as new research offers a chilling truth about the volatility of climate change

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

Man uses fortune to send strangers to college

A humble man from Iowa, Dale Schroeder, grew up poor, had no wife or kids of his own. Before he died in 2005, he told his lawyer what to do with his money, a near $3 million - use it to send kids to college.

MSN

Canada airlifting trapped migrating salmon

Canada is airlifting thousands of salmon upstream after a rockslide blocked the path of the migrating fish, triggering concerns of a permanent loss of fish populations, government officials said.

Reuters

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Avon donates 100K for girls’ right to education

Avon Foundation for Women announced that it was donating $100,000 to Malala Fund – a charity that champions every girl’s right to 12 years of free, safe, quality education.

Yahoo Finance

Nonprofit plants 250M trees to help planet heal

Eden Reforestation Projects, an NGO which provides poverty relief by employing local villagers in Haiti, Madagascar, and Nepal to help with reforestation, announced they’ve planted 250 million trees around the world.

Good

ENVIRONMENT

‘Unprecedented’ wildfires ravage the Arctic

More than 100 intense wildfires have ravaged the Arctic since June, with scientists describing the blazes as “unprecedented.” This comes after the planet experienced the hottest June on record, and is on track for the hottest July.

CNN

Guam’s coral reefs could face death in weeks

A level two alert warning of coral reefs is anticipated in Guam, a U.S. island territory in Micronesia, in a little over a month, according to coral reef experts. Guam’s reefs currently are under a bleaching warning.

Guam Daily Post

Can this map save coral reefs? Researchers aim to conserve natural resource with satellites and AI

GeekWire

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Zimbabweans say economy worse than ever

Zimbabweans who cheered the downfall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe two years ago are aghast to find their economy even worse than before. Prices of basic goods are inflated by 175 percent, 5.5 million people are hungry.

Associated Press

Debate rages over likely recession in Mexico

Reuters

China expands power in Africa through TVs

Xi Jinping announced a plan to take digital television to impoverished parts of Africa. Is this so Beijing can have a tighter grip on Africa’s communications and control over how China is portrayed there in the media?

CNN

Photo of the Day

A painting of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai by Anat Ronen. Malala and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai founded Malala Fund in 2013 to champion every girl’s right to 12 years of free, safe, quality education. In June 2018, Malala Fund helped secure a $2.9 billion commitment for girls’ education from G7 countries and the World Bank. (Photo by Mike Rastiello) Photo used under CC BY

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