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A jeepney driver focused on transporting his passengers in the Philippines. Men spend significantly more on petrol and diesel than women, resulting in higher contributions to climate emissions. Policymakers need to consider the role gender and environment play in the climate crisis to provide better solutions. (Photo by Brian Evans) Photo used under CC BY

Men’s purchases create more climate emissions

Men’s spending on goods causes 16% more climate-heating emissions than women’s, despite the sum of money being very similar, a study has found. The gender differences in emissions should be recognized in action to beat the climate crisis.

Guardian

Nigeria saves 100 kidnapped women, children

The authorities in northwest Nigeria say they have freed 100 women and children who were seized by bandits. They were released without any ransom being paid but no further details were supplied by authorities.

BBC

Activists criticize MPs of Beirut blast ‘cover up’

Legal activists and the families of blast victims from last years Beirut port explosion criticize Lebanon’s parliamentary move for special judicial body to try officials, suggesting it shields them from prosecution.

Al Jazeera

Climate change becoming more extreme, floods show

Deadly floods that have upended life in both China and Germany have sent a reminder that climate change is making weather more extreme across the globe and highlights the vulnerability of heavily populated areas to flooding and other natural disasters.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

China’s flooding traps passengers in subway cars

NBCNews.com

Extreme weather: Why people risk their lives to save their homes

Deutsche Welle

S. Africa to make Pfizer vaccine, first in Africa

A South African firm will begin producing the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first time that the shot will be produced in Africa, a move that should help address the continent’s desperate need for more vaccine doses.

Associated Press

Two Pfizer, AstraZeneca doses work against variant

Al Jazeera

Two-thirds of India may have COVID antibodies

Up to two-thirds of India’s population may have been infected with COVID, a government study suggested. The blood serum survey of about 29,000 people in June and July showed 67.6 percent of those tested had antibodies.

Asia Times Online

The jungle-trekking COVID vaccinators helping to protect remote Indian villages

BBC

Internal displacement surges in Sudan’s Darfur

Two years after the Sudanese revolution, hundreds of thousands of people have been internally displaced as violence in Darfur continues. A hard-earned peace agreement has done little to end a decade-old conflict.

Yahoo! News

HUMAN RIGHTS

India’s DNA data law could harm minorities

A proposed Indian law on the collection and use of genetic data to tackle crime can violate privacy, and target minorities and marginalized communities disproportionately, according to technology experts and human rights groups.

Al Jazeera

Children suffer from Niger’s security crisis

In Niger, jihadist attacks in its southern and western regions have forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. Children are among those bearing the brunt of insecurity.

Deutsche Welle

Protests erupt amid water crisis in parched Iran

Unprecedented water shortages in Iran have sparked protests across Khuzestan that have quickly spread to other regions, a popular uprising that threatens wider stability as authorities violently crack down.

Asia Times Online

Thousands join Budapest Pride march against anti-LGBTQ law

Reuters

GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY

Tunisian president stops parliament, fires PM

Troops surrounded Tunisia’s parliament and blocked its speaker from entering this week after the president suspended the legislature and fired the prime minister.

Associated Press

EU calls on all Tunisian actors to respect constitution, rule of law

Reuters

Brazilians protest for Bolsonaro’s impeachment

Protesters took to the streets in several Brazilian cities to demand the impeachment of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

Reuters

Are democratic reforms at risk in Tanzania?

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Marsquakes offer detailed look at Mar’s interior

A quake-measuring device on Mars is providing the first detailed look at the red planet’s interior, revealing a surprisingly thin crust and a hot molten core beneath the frigid surface.

Associated Press

AI breakthrough could spark medical revolution

Artificial intelligence has been used to predict the structures of almost every protein made by the human body. The development could help supercharge the discovery of new drugs to treat disease, alongside other applications.

BBC

GLOBAL HEALTH

S. Africa aims to vaccinate 35M by Christmas

South Africa aims to have given at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine to 35 million of its 60 million people by Christmas, a senior health official said.

Reuters

S. Africa’s vaccination drive regains pace after unrest

Associated Press

Clashes in Paris over pandemic measures

BBC

W. Africa’s liver cancer cases linked to hepatitis

Liver cancer is strikingly prevalent in West Africa. Specialists point to high rates of hepatitis as a likely cause, but the region is not well equipped to deal with the epidemic.

Deutsche Welle

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Sabrina Elba):

Small farms are the future of food systems

Deutsche Welle

Editorial:

The Observer view on the unfolding crisis in Lebanon

Guardian

Column (Chris Larsen and Mark Malloch-Brown):

Why refugees can, and should, lead solutions to displacement

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Catherine Lux, Matthew Leonard, Sasha Fahimi and Ashley Nawn.

GOOD NEWS

Teacher helps other teachers get free supplies

With just weeks away teachers are continuing to get ready for the next school year. Here’s how one Gainesville teacher’s idea to help her colleagues get supplies has gone farther than she could have imagined.

mycbs4.com

Cafe employs foster kids who have aged out of the system

Good Morning America

S. African pastor donates food to starving families

NBCNews.com

NONPROFITS & PHILANTHROPY

Foundation gives $5M to democracy research

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced investments totaling $5.5 million to advance research of issues related to online content moderation, disinformation, and freedom of expression.

Philanthropy News Digest

Human rights giving needs broader donor pool

Philanthropic funding to promote human rights globally reached a record $3.7 billion in 2018. However, nearly half the donations came from 12 foundations, showing funding dependent on only a handful of donors.

Yahoo! News

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY

Millions in Lebanon at risk of losing safe water

The United Nations has warned that more than four million people in Lebanon, including one million refugees, risk losing access to safe water as shortages of funding, fuel and supplies affect water pumping.

Al Jazeera

Myanmar economy expected to shrink by 18%

Myanmar’s economy is expected to shrink by 18 percent in 2021, the World Bank said. The proportion of countries population living in poverty is ‘likely to more than double’ by the beginning of 2022 compared with 2019.

Asia Times Online

ENVIRONMENT

Satellites protect rainforest from ‘tipping point’

A new early warning system using satellite data to sound the alarm on growing threats to the world’s tropical forests, including worsening drought and logging, aims to stop them reaching a point of no return.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Four G20 states threaten global climate pledge

China, Russia, Brazil and Australia all have energy policies associated with 5C rises in atmospheric temperatures, a heating hike that would bring devastation to much of the planet.

Guardian

Rescuers search for survivors in India flood

Rescuers in India have combed through mud and debris in a frantic search for survivors as the death toll from heavy monsoon rains climbed to 115, with nearly 150,000 others evacuated.

Al Jazeera

UN summit seeks food system fit for the future

An upcoming U.N. summit on food systems aims to curb damage to the environment and wildlife from what’s on our plates, as well as tackle hunger made worse by COVID and climate-heating emissions from agriculture.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Photo of the Day

Passengers wait for the train on the platform of Henan People‘s Hospital Station in Henan Province in Zhengzhou, China. Floodwater crashed through a subway station here due to what some experts are calling “once-in-a-millennium” levels of downpours. At least 12 are known to have died in the floods. (Photo by Windmemories) Photo used under CC BY

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