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Climate activists march in Melbourne, Australia, in 2009. A major study says that by 2025 there‘s a 40% chance of at least one year being 1.5C hotter than the pre-industrial level. That’s the lower of two temperature limits set by the Paris Agreement on climate change. (Photo by Takver from Australia) Photo used under CC BY

Climate tipping point coming within 5 years

The likelihood that the Earth’s average temperature will temporarily breach a crucial tipping point is rising, according to the world’s leading weather and climate organization, the World Meteorological Organization.

CNN

Climate change spurs mental health crisis

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Oil companies take a hit, sparking climate hope

A “cataclysmic day” for three major oil companies in which investors rebelled over climate fears and a court ordered fossil fuel emissions to be slashed has sparked hope among activists.

Guardian

Hong Kong passes law reducing voting rights

Hong Kong’s legislature has passed an electoral reform bill that will increase the number of pro-Beijing lawmakers in the city’s legislative council. At the same time, the legislation reduces the public’s ability to choose elected representatives.

Deutsche Welle

Child labor increases amid COVID conditions

The COVID lockdowns in the world’s poorest countries have seen schools close, households lose their incomes, and a growth in domestic abuse. The result has been a rise in child labor as children have found themselves in often precarious and exploitative work.

Guardian

COVID pushes Congo’s kids into domestic work

Reuters

Israelis, Palestinians use app to spark talks

A group of people gathered on Clubhouse, a social audio networking app, for a marathon talk on the violence between Palestine and Israel. The room started as a private chat but eventually gathered up to 159,000 people.

NPR

Gaza destruction leaves thousands homeless

Deutsche Welle

Focus in Israel, Gaza turns to rebuilding

NPR

HUMAN RIGHTS

Asian governments push internet surveillance

Asian nations from Cambodia to India have introduced a slew of internet and data use legislation in recent months. Human rights group warn the measures raise the risk of mass surveillance and free speech violations.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Israel’s Gaza strikes may constitute ‘war crimes’

The United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has said Israel’s recent attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip that killed more than 200 Palestinians may constitute “war crimes” if they are shown to be disproportionate.

Al Jazeera

China tests AI emotion software on Uyghurs

A camera system that uses AI and facial recognition intended to reveal states of emotion has been tested on Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The system can detect and analyze changes in facial expressions and skin pores.

BBC

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Nepal’s political turmoil unleashes health risks

After Nepal‘s Parliament was dissolved by President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Saturday, a political battle is underway among the Himalayan county’s rival political factions.

Deutsche Welle

Mali’s transitional president resigns in detention

Mali’s transitional president has resigned while he and the prime minister are in detention after being arrested by the military earlier this week.

ABC News

Syrian election set to cement Assad’s power

Voters in government-held parts of Syria are heading to the polls to cast ballots in an election that is set to cement a fourth term for Bashar al-Assad – but is dismissed by the opposition and Western powers as a farce as he runs against government-approved candidates.

Al Jazeera

As Assad tightens grip on Syria, refugees lose hope

Reuters

10 years of war have devastated Syria, region

Reuters

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

AI emotion-recognition tested on Uyghurs

A camera system that uses AI and facial recognition intended to reveal emotions have been tested on Uyghurs in Xinjiang. A software engineer claimed to have installed such systems in police stations in the province.

BBC

Time limit relaxed on lab-grown human embryos

The ban on growing human embryos in the lab beyond 14 days has been relaxed by an international body of experts, paving the way for research that could help to unpick issues.

Guardian

GLOBAL HEALTH

India COVID trials cease as Pfizer relief to arrive

India scrapped local trials for “well-established” foreign COVID vaccines this week as it tries to accelerate its vaccination rollout, with a government official saying Pfizer shots could arrive by July.

Reuters

Has India’s deadly second COVID wave peaked?

BBC

Poverty, fear propel India’s COVID crisis

Al Jazeera

Lebanon can’t afford medical goods, bank says

Lebanon’s central bank said that a system for importing subsidized medical goods could not be sustained without using its mandatory reserves and asked the relevant authorities to find a solution to the problem.

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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The dilemma with Assad in Syria

Deutsche Welle

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Why we must give substance to corporate net-zero targets

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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Satellite tech, forest guardians protect Vietnam’s mangroves

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Man turns inheritance into kindness campaign

A Northern Virginia man came into an unexpected inheritance that he really didn’t need, so he decided to share it with people who are struggling. He took his baby grandson on a monthlong random acts of kindness tour.

SunnySkyz

Otter feared extinct resurfaces in Argentina

Once believed to be locally extinct, a wild giant otter was sighted in Argentina’s Impenetrable National Park. The species hasn’t been seen in the country for 40 years.

Mongabay

Projects making a difference to bees in 2021

Positive News

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Alliance for Greater Works receives $1M

The Alliance for Greater Works, in Grand Prairie, Texas, has announced a $1 million gift from the Lilly Endowment to help churches serving marginalized communities across Texas respond to trauma.

Philanthropy News Digest

Matching gift drives more than triple revenues

Recurring giving is a big part of the Classy platform. Among organizations that raise more than $50 million online annually, the percent of total revenue from recurring gifts increased by 10% from 2019.

NonProfit Times

Foundation unveils $75M racial equity initiative

Georgia Power and its foundation have announced a five-year, $75 million initiative in support of racial equity and social justice efforts in the state of Georgia.

Philanthropy News Digest

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Filipino fishermen face threats in COVID, China

Flaring tensions in disputed areas of the South China Sea, and coronavirus-related lockdown measures complicating distribution of fish catches, are threatening the survival of Filipino fishermen, according to activists.

Deutsche Welle

Collapsing economy spurs anger in Zimbabwe

After successive lockdowns in Zimbabwe during the pandemic, life has become unbearable for ordinary people working in the informal sector.

Guardian

Tesco admits labor abuses found in India

The British supermarket Tesco is among global brands named in a new report uncovering workers’ rights abuses in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu’s garment sector.

Guardian

In pictures: Sierra Leone struggle to recover from slum fire

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

People of color more exposed to heat islands

In nearly every major city in the U.S., people of color are exposed to more extreme urban heat than white people, a new study found.

Associated Press

DR Congo eruption leaves 20K homeless

More than 20,000 people are homeless and 40 are still missing in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that killed dozens and continues to cause earthquakes in the nearby city of Goma.

Al Jazeera

Democratic Republic of Congo braces for another possible volcano eruption

CNN

Photo of the Day

Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, was founded as a home for repatriated former slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sierra Leone, in West Africa, is one of the poorest countries in the world, ranking 182 out of the 189 countries in the Human Development Index. (Photo by Bob the Magic Dragon) Photo used under CC BY

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