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On a global scale, around 4 billion people — almost two-thirds of the living human race — experience severe water scarcity for at least one month out of the year. Now water shortages are expected to increase even more. (Photo by Scott Presly) Photo used under CC BY

Global demand for water spikes amid mass shortages

Limited access to clean water remains a struggle for millions of Americans. And lack of water access is expected to become an even greater problem in the coming years across the world. By 2030, there will be a 40% gap between global water supply and demand.

CBS News

Solving Rwanda’s water problems

Deutsche Welle

Ethnic clash death toll in Ethiopia may be 200

The death toll in clashes between Ethiopia’s two largest ethnic groups, the Oromo and Amhara, in the northern Amhara region may be as high as 200, a senior official said, up from previous reports of at least 50.

Reuters

US to send assistance to COVID surging India

The United States has promised to send more support to India as the country grapples with an escalating COVID-19 pandemic that has seen the country report world record high cases for four days in a row.

Al Jazeera

UK to send oxygen and ventilators to India as Covid crisis deepens

MSN

India’s COVID meltdown exposes digital divide

Thomson Reuters Foundation

US faces calls to share COVID-19 vaccines

In the United States, more than one-fourth of the population has been fully vaccinated and supplies are so robust that some states are turning down planned shipments from the federal government.

Associated Press

Vaccines offer hope amid new wave in Argentina

Yahoo! News

Vaccine stories, from London to Mumbai

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Israeli police clash with Palestinian protesters

The Israeli police and Palestinians clashed outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls overnight as tensions flared during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Al Jazeera

HUMAN RIGHTS

Protest ahead of summit on Myanmar crisis

Protesters against Myanmar’s military coup returned to the streets of downtown Yangon, defiantly chanting their opposition to the army’s seizure of power as the junta chief prepared to attend a meeting of Southeast Asian leaders on the country’s crisis.

Associated Press

ASEAN demands violence end in Myanmar

Al Jazeera

3 Nigerian university students killed by bandits

Three students kidnapped by armed bandits from Greenfield University in northern Nigeria earlier this week have been killed.

CNN

DEMOCRACY & GOVERNANCE

Indonesian submarine disaster highlights risks

The disappearance of an Indonesian submarine follows dozens of other disasters in the world’s seas. Military secrecy limits access to details of accidents that show technological advances are still no match for dire risks at great depths.

Associated Press

Liberia will prevent attacks on Ivory Coast

Liberia has pledged to prevent rebel attacks from its territory on the neighboring Ivory Coast, where security sources reported that Liberian documents were found on assailants raiding a military camp outside Abidjan.

Al Jazeera

France not doing enough in climate fight

A Paris court has found France legally responsible for its failure to meet targets intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Whitest white paint could fight climate change

Mechanical engineer, Xiulin Ruan, and his colleagues have created whiter paints that help keep buildings cool, without the need for electricity. It reflects up to 98.1 percent of sunlight and can cool buildings the world over.

ABC News

Monkeys form friendship after hurricane

After Hurricane Maria swept through Puerto Rico in 2017 researchers found rhesus macaques, a species of monkey became more sociable with each other, according to a study published in the journal Current Biology.

CNN

Student’s equitable invention helps in surgery

Dasia Taylor is a 17-year-old from Iowa City, Iowa, who used beet juice to create color-changing sutures. The Iowa student has dedicated her life to equity work and is seeking a patent for her creation.

CNN

GLOBAL HEALTH

A Sikh temple aids India’s COVID patients

Sikh aid group Khalsa Help International has been buying small quantities of oxygen as and when it becomes available to help Indians fighting COVID.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Japan minister tackles loneliness, suicide

Increasing social and economic isolation is causing Japan’s suicide rate to climb, with working women and single mothers most at risk. The newly appointed “minister of loneliness” plans to alleviate this phenomenon.

Deutsche Welle

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GOOD NEWS

Memorial marries ecological and social justice

At the Georgia Institute of Technology, a team of architects transformed an area once dominated by pavement and buildings into a park that provides a commons for the campus community while commemorating an important site for the civil rights movement.

Yahoo! News

This mail carrier gets sweetest sendoff for his retirement

Good Morning America

Anonymous donor pays pet adoption fees

A donor, dubbed Doge Community, won big using cryptocurrency Dogecoin and put $1000 of those funds toward the adoption fees of dogs that were currently ready to be adopted from Halifax Humane Society.

People

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

UK charity reclaiming children’s right to roam

Naomi Fisher and a friend and former primary school teacher, Lisa Walke, set up ROAM, a first of its kind charity running sessions to help support parents and children with safe, unsupervised play outside.

MSN

Nonprofits’ online gifts jumped 32% in 2020

Online fundraising revenue at U.S. nonprofits rose a record 32 percent in 2020 - up from a 10 percent increase in 2019 - while the number of online gifts rose 28 percent.

Philanthropy News Digest

Foundation expands child welfare initiative

The Annie E. Casey Foundation has announced an expansion of its partnership with the U.S. Children’s Bureau, Casey Family Programs, and Prevent Child Abuse America to reinvent child welfare across the United States.

Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Turning Congo’s plastic waste into portraits

A Congolese artist is creating eye-catching portraits of famous people using an unusual material: plastic waste. He wants his art to raise awareness about the capital Kinshasa’s poor waste disposal system.

Deutsche Welle

Farming in the Fukushima exclusion zone

Deutsche Welle

Climate crisis has shifted the Earth’s axis

The massive melting of glaciers as a result of global heating has caused marked shifts in the Earth’s axis of rotation since the 1990s, research has shown.

Guardian

Earth Day 2021: See the conservation projects working to Restore Our Earth

CNN

Brazil cuts environment spending budget

The Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, has approved a 24 percent cut to the environment budget for 2021, just a day after pledging to increase spending to fight deforestation.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Philly pizzeria run entirely by formerly incarcerated men and women

A Plus

Data reveals depth of Delhi’s housing crisis

A new website that records the lives and evictions of slum dwellers in the Indian city of Delhi will help address the chronic shortage of affordable and adequate housing across the country, urban experts said on Friday.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Vertical farm bring jobs, produce to Compton

Plenty, an innovative agriculture startup plans to open an indoor vertical farm in Compton to help bring more jobs and loads of fresh produce to the California city.

CNN

Photo of the Day

Indian farmers march to Delhi as part of ongoing protests against three new agricultural laws they say will devastate their income. The strike first started in November 2020 and involved more than 250 million people.⁣ (Photo by Randeep Maddoke) Photo used under CC BY

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