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Forest burned for palm oil in the Brazilian Amazon. New government data reveals that Amazon deforestation has surged to over three football fields a minute, pushing the rainforest toward a catastrophic “tipping point” beyond which it cannot recover. (Photo by CIFOR) Photo used under CC BY

Deforestation nearing ‘tipping point’ in Amazon

Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has surged above three football fields a minute, according to the latest government data, pushing the world’s biggest rainforest closer to a tipping point beyond which it cannot recover.

Guardian

Special section:

The real face of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest

India Times

The disappearance of India’s Aravali Hills

Deutsche Welle

Bitter chocolate: Deforestation in the Ivory Coast

Al Jazeera

Court says Trump can tap Pentagon money for wall

The U.S. Supreme Court, overturning a lower court decision, cleared the way for the Trump administration to tap $2.5 billion in Pentagon program funds to build a portion of a planned wall along the border with Mexico.

NBCNews.com

What happens to immigrants once they leave US detention centers

Deutsche Welle

Bahrain executes three despite rights outcry

Bahrain executed three people, two of whom were allegedly tortured, prevented from attending their trial and sentenced to death in absentia. Amnesty said the executions displayed a "contempt for human rights.”

Guardian

Saudi Arabia suspends Hajj visas over Ebola

Saudi Arabia has suspended visas for the Democratic Republic of the Congo over fears Ebola could spread during next month’s Hajj pilgrimage. The decision noted that the WHO had declared Ebola a public health emergency.

Al Jazeera

Too many in Congo Ebola outbreak dying at home

Associated Press

HUMAN RIGHTS

Syrian air raids kill over 100 in past 10 days

Air raids by the Syrian government and its allies in the country’s last rebel-held enclave have killed more than 100 civilians in 10 days.

Al Jazeera

Up to 150 dead in Mediterranean tragedy

Scores or refugees and migrants are feared drowned after the boats they were travelling in capsized off the coast of Libya in the Mediterranean Sea.

Al Jazeera

Photo captures Guatemalan mother begging soldier to let her enter US

Reuters

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Demonstrators demand release of Islamic leader

At least four people were killed in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, when security forces clashed with Islamic Movement of Nigeria members demanding the release of their Shia leader.

Al Jazeera

The woman risking her life to photograph the forgotten victims of war

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Glow-in-the-dark shark species discovered

A new species of tiny shark which glows in the dark and squirts luminous liquid has been discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. It is only the third species of more than 500 known shark species believed to secrete fluorescent liquid.

The Independent

Women better at remembering words, faces

New research suggests that women may be better than men at remembering conversations and people’s faces, which represent episodic-type memories.

Medical News Today

A nation of 7 million just got hacked

Records of more than 5 million Bulgarians got stolen by hackers from the country’s tax revenue office. With only 7 million people. just about every working adult has been affected.

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

Australian city bans smoking in public places

The lunchtime smokers of North Sydney gathered under a cloud after their local council became the first in Australia to vote to ban smoking in all public places in the central business district.

Guardian

USA lags in banning harmful pesticides

Many pesticides that have been banned or are being phased out in the EU, Brazil and China, are still widely used in the U.S., according to a study published in the open access journal Environmental Health.

Phys.org

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GOOD NEWS

Soccer takes Libyan from chaos to success

A soccer player who was just 19 when the revolution began in Libya. In the years since, the 27-year-old has forged a career in the U.S. while striving to support his parents and two brothers in Libya.

Guardian

Blind teen piano prodigy plays with Billy Joel

Fourteen-year-old Logan Riman, a blind piano prodigy played at Radio City Music Hall in April. This week, he added another accomplishment to his accolades, playing with the “Piano Man” himself, Billy Joel.

CBS News

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

World Bank gives $300M to DRC to fight Ebola

The World Bank announced that it was deploying another $300 million in crisis aid for DR Congo to help contain the year-old Ebola outbreak. This, after WHO declared the outbreak a public health emergency.

Channel NewsAsia

Congo student with Ebola still finds a way to take exams

Associated Press

ENVIRONMENT

Next 18 months key to braking global warming

Before it was “12 years to save the planet.” There’s a growing consensus that the next 18 months will be critical in dealing with the global heating crisis, among other challenges.

BBC

Toilet paper is getting less sustainable

Toilet paper – the one product that the majority of us use just once and flush away – is becoming less sustainable, research shows.

Guardian

Special section:

Is Netflix bad for the environment? How streaming video contributes to climate change

Deutsche Welle

Heat wave speeds up Greenland ice melt

The United Nations weather agency has voiced “concern” that hot air producing a record-breaking heat wave is headed toward Greenland and could lead to a faster ice melt.

Al Jazeera

Climate change turning turtles female?

The Independent

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Skills gap will cost US $1.2T over next decade

The shortage of workers with at least an associate or bachelor’s degree in the labor force will end up costing the U.S. economy $1.2 trillion over the next decade, according to a new report.

Yahoo Finance

Photo of the Day

A woman protests in Downing Street, London against the UK government’s determination to press ahead with air strikes on Syria, in November 2015. (Photo by Alisdare Hickson) Photo used under CC BY

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