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A boy washes his hands at a Rwandan camp that supplies liquid soap and water through foot peddle operated tanks. The innovative tanks secure the soap supply where it would often go missing in the busy camp. (Photo by Laura Eldon / Oxfam)

Natural defenses can limit coastal damage

Reefs, dunes and marshes are key to protecting lives and property against storm surges and long-term sea-level rise.

Nature

New language discovered in desert town

It’s spoken only by a few hundred people living in a desert community, and almost exclusively by those under the age of 35. But the discovery of a new language in Australia is causing excitement among linguists.

The Daily Telegraph

China’s economic growth at 7.5 percent

After decades of blistering growth in China, analysts say authorities now seem ready to accept a slower pace of expansion. Weak trade data and actions by authorities to rein in bank lending contributed to the slower growth.

BBC

29 boarding school students burned alive, shot dead by Islamist militants in Nigeria

Islamic militants attacked a boarding school in northeast Nigeria before dawn Saturday, killing 29 students and one teacher.

NBCNews.com

Burn schools, kill teachers, not kids:Boko Haram leader

Taipei Times

Audio slideshow: Education in Nigeria

Guardian

In Kenya, small is vulnerable

With the country’s food security and farmers’ livelihoods at risk from climate change, Kenya has divergent policy options: deploying new technologies or turn to the country’s natural biodiversity.

Inter Press Service

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Bees pollinating cucumbers in Kenya

National Geographic

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Africa: Invest in Ourselves for Profit and Social Good - Elumelu

The new Impact Economy Investment fund, administered by the Global Impact Investing Network, is competitively funding 12-month projects that demonstrate potential to create jobs and have a social impact.

allAfrica.com

United Arab Emirates giving to Sandy-hit N.J. schools

Thirty public schools impacted by superstorm Sandy will receive $4.5 million from the United Arab Emirates, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced.

USA TODAY

HUMAN RIGHTS

Pakistan’s women paratroopers create history

Female officers of the Pakistan Army have jumped from military helicopters for the first time in the country’s history, the military said.

Times of India

Egypt, Jordan, Iraq seek to stem Syrian refugee flood

Syria’s raging civil war has seen neighbors flooded with refugees. Egypt has become the latest regional country to take steps to limit refugee access.

Christian Science Monitor

The Don who‘s taken charge of Jordan’s biggest refugee camp

NPR

Return to Lebanon: A country fighting someone else’s war

BBC

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

New labor norms could hurt Bangladesh

The decisions of the U.S. and the European Union to demand implementation of controversial labor standards in Bangladesh may pose a serious threat to the global trading system.

Inter Press Service

How Thailand’s botched rice scheme blew a big hole in its economy

The plan was simple: Thailand’s government would buy rice from local farmers at a generous price, some 50 percent above the market rates.

TIME

POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Exclusive: Kenyan peacekeepers aided illegal Somalia charcoal export - U.N.

A report by U.N. monitors accuses Kenyan soldiers in the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia of facilitating illegal charcoal exports, a business that supports Islamic militants seeking to topple the government.

Reuters

Philippine rebels agree to wealth-sharing

Muslim rebel leaders in the Philippines‘ troubled south will get access to the lion’s share of the region’s natural resources under an agreement reached in peace talks with the government.

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Robots to revolutionize farming, provide relief from labor shortages

Farmers say farm robots could provide relief from recent labor shortages, lessen the unknowns of immigration reform, even reduce costs, increase quality and yield a more consistent product.

San Francisco Chronicle

Myanmar vows to free all political prisoners

The president of Myanmar has promised to release all political prisoners by the end of this year and said he thought a nationwide ceasefire was possible in the coming weeks for the first time in six decades.

Al Jazeera

NONPROFITS AND NGOS

A social entrepreneur transforms a nonprofit into a profit-making enterprise

Saul Garlick fundamentally had three options: continue as a nonprofit, go commercial, or find some sort of hybrid route.

New York Times

Diamond industry charity releases products to fund education programs in Africa

The Diamond Empowerment Fund, a diamond industry charity, unveiled jewelry and watches that will be sold to raise funds to provide educational programs in the diamond-producing countries of Africa.

Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change is happening too quickly for species to adapt

A study has shown that the speed of evolutionary change is far outstripped by the rate of global warming, meaning many creatures will face extinction

Guardian

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The climate change conundrum: What the future is beginning to look like for wildlife

National Geographic

Polar ice loss cause still unclear

Here is a non-conclusion: after nine years of close observation, researchers still cannot be sure whether the planet is losing its ice caps at an accelerating rate.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

What if you could learn everything?

How a new technology that figures out just how your mind works is about to make us all a whole lot smarter.

Newsweek

Air pollution responsible for more than 2 million deaths worldwide each year

More than two million deaths occur worldwide each year as a direct result of human-caused outdoor air pollution, a new study has found.

ScienceDaily

Photo of the Day

The sweet potato is safeguarding children’s sight and improving the income of families in communities across Uganda, Mozambique and other countries in Africa. Vitamin A intake among young children doubled in households that grew them. (Photo by Gates Foundation)

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