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A littered beach in northern Norway. Fisheries, aquaculture, recreational activities and global wellbeing are all negatively affected by plastic pollution, with an estimated 1-5% decline in the benefit humans derive from oceans. The resulting cost in such benefits, known as marine ecosystem value, is up to $2.5B a year, according to a study published in Marine Pollution Bulletin. (Photo by Bo Eide) Photo used under CC BY

Marine plastic pollution costing world $2B a year

Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans costs society billions of dollars every year in damaged and lost resources, research has found.

Guardian

Video showing devastating plastic pollution on Tenerife beach goes viral

El Pais

This pregnant whale died with 50 pounds of plastic in her stomach

National Geographic

S. Sudan water crisis causing abductions, rape

Nearly 80% of South Sudan has no access to clean water and caught in the crossfire of armed conflicts are women, who are responsible for fetching water supplies even if it means making long, dangerous journeys.

The Independent

More than 113M people require urgent food aid

More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance in 2018, according to a new report published in Brussels.

ScienceDaily

Poor eating habits killing millions globally

Poor diet is responsible for more deaths than any other risk factor, including smoking, according to a new report. Economic inequality is a big factor, with poor often unable to meet daily fruit and vegetable recommendation.

Deutsche Welle

Unaccompanied kids flooding Syrian camp

Hundreds of unaccompanied children are living in a camp in northeast Syria, overwhelmed with people who fled the last battlefields ISIS, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has said.

Al Jazeera

Thousands overwhelm Syrian refugee camp — most are the families of ISIS fighters

NPR

Cambodia urged to fund bride trafficking pacts

New agreements reached between Phnom Penh and Beijing to combat the trafficking of Cambodian ‘brides’ to China will be useless without fresh funding and stricter enforcement, anti-trafficking groups warned.

Reuters

HUMAN RIGHTS

Belgium sorry for kidnappings in colonial era

Belgian PM Charles Michel has apologized for the country kidnapping thousands of mixed-race kids during colonial rule in Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda. They were taken, fostered by Catholic orders and other institutions.

BBC

Oxford college to investigate its own role in colonialism

Guardian

El Salvador gives abusers class in masculinity

In El Salvador, which registered 365 femicides last year, male aggressors are being enrolled in masculinity training in an attempt to rehabilitate male abusers and reduce violence against women.

Al Jazeera

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Australia will punish firms for violent content

Australia will fine social media companies up to 10 percent of their annual global turnover and imprison executives for up to three years if violent content is not removed “expeditiously”.

Al Jazeera

How tough new Australian social media law works

Associated Press

India election campaigns fueled by illegal cash?

Indian political parties are taking advantage of lax transparency regulations, black money and no limits on spending. Some parties have reportedly tried to win votes by offering cash prizes and alcohol.

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Brighter nights harm wildlife, human health

Light pollution is endangering ecosystems by harming animals whose life cycles depend on darkness, while also threatening human health by altering the biochemical rhythms that normally ebb and flow with natural light levels.

National Geographic

Study uncovers protein that keeps skin young

The prosaically named COL17A1 might not sound like a fountain of youth, but a new study suggests it does the heavy lifting when it comes to keeping skin intact and unimpaired.

Channel NewsAsia

GLOBAL HEALTH

WHO: Global life expectancy up by 5.5 years

Global life expectancy grew by 5.5 years between 2000 and 2016, the World Health Organization said, warning though that unequal income and access to healthcare translates into far shorter lives for many.

Channel NewsAsia

Venezuelan health system collapses amid crisis

The UN is being urged to declare a full-scale humanitarian emergency in Venezuela in the light of the “utter collapse” of its health system and widespread food shortages.

Telegraph.co.uk

In photos: Life and death in Venezuela’s depleted hospitals

The New Humanitarian

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Brunei and stoning: Don’t leave it to celebrities to act

Guardian

Column (Steve Fechheimer and Land Tawney):

Like hunting, fishing and beer? Defend the Clean Water Act

The Hill

Column (Jack Dangermond):

Secure land rights is the path to end global poverty

Thomson Reuters Foundation

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GOOD NEWS

Sri Lanka now has its first all-women surf club

In Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka, strong-minded local women are creating a space for themselves in the country’s surfing culture where they were previously unwelcome.

Surfer Magazine

Grandmother spends year cleaning beach

MSN

UK woman creates newspaper with good news

Emily Coxhead, 24, is the creator of the Happy Newspaper which consists of only positive news. While she believes people need to be aware of what’s happening globally, she says that they need to hear about good things too.

BBC

The full list of UK people who make life better for others

The Independent

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Sports club pledges $1M to fight anti-semitism

Borussia Dortmund, one of Germany’s leading football clubs, has reaffirmed its commitment to fighting anti-Semitism by donating $1.1 million to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem.

CNN

Rockefeller awards $42M for climate efforts

The Rockefeller Foundation announced grants totaling $42 million to the Adrienne Arsht Center for Resilience at the Atlantic Council and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors in support of global climate resilience.

Philanthropy News Digest

ENVIRONMENT

Weather presenters put climate change on map

There was a time when weather presenters were all about rain, sunshine and areas of high pressure. Now the climate is changing, and so are their jobs, as many see it as their role to help raise awareness.

Deutsche Welle

Mass decline in baby corals in Barrier Reef

The deadly back-to-back bleaching events that hammered Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and 2017 led to a collapse in the recruitment of new corals, severely affecting the ecosystem’s ability to recover.

Huffington Post

ECONOMIC EQUITY

Romanian women pay price to work in Italy

Many Romanian women suffer from depression after leaving their families to work in the “care” industry in Italy’s stagnant economy, where Romanians constitute the biggest foreign population.

Deutsche Welle

Many men think gender pay gap is fake news

The gender pay gap has its own holiday but many men think it’s just a conspiracy. A survey of 8,566 American adults found that 46 percent of men believed pay gap “is made up to serve a political purpose.”

New York Post

Disney hit with gender pay gap class action suit

Vox

Photo of the Day

One-year-old Víctor Fernández plays on insulating mats on the floor of the UNICEF tents in Rumichaca, near Customs of Ecuador. At the time this photo was taken in August 2018, Victor and his mother had exhausted all the money they had brought from Venezuela for food and travel tickets, and did not know what to do next. (Photo by ©UNICEF/ECU/2018/Arcos) Photo used under CC BY

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