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Calving front of the Upsala Glacier (Argentina). This glacier has been thinning and retreating at a rapid rate during the last decades – from 2006 to 2010, it receded 43.7 yards (40 meters) per year. (Photo by NASA) Photo used under CC BY

Migrants protest as Hungary shutters Budapest train station

Hundreds of migrants demonstrated outside Budapest’s Railway Terminal demanding they be allowed to travel on to Germany, as European Union asylum rules came close to collapse under the strain of unprecedented migration.

Reuters

Migrant crisis: Hundreds end journey at Munich station

BBC

UN condems sexual violence in Iraq and Syria

The UN Security Council has condemned the use of all forms of sexual violence in Syria and Iraq. The UN urged all parties to armed conflict to take all feasible steps to protect civilians from such “abhorrent” acts.

The Nation

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New York creates special victim’s unit for campus sexual assault

Reason.com

Trash to treatise: NYC professor sees meaning in garbage

New York‘s sanitation department has its very own anthropologist-in-residence, a garbage guru who studies the refuse along the curbs of the nation’s biggest city as a mirror into the lives of its 8.5 million residents.

San Francisco Chronicle

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Lebanese protesters stage largest anti-government protest yet over trash crisis

U.S. News & World Report

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

LeBron James philanthropy a light in the darkness

We’re approaching the one-year anniversary of a story that proved way too good to be true.So thank you, LeBron James, for a respite from the mind-numbing drumbeat of bad news.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Philanthropy: A surprising rise in giving

Barrons

Better shelters getting put to work in Nepal

The Ikea Foundation is one the few international NGOs that is dedicated to alleviating suffering of refugees, but it hasn’t turned a blind eye to those that have been displaced from their homes for other reasons.

Inside Philanthropy

HUMAN RIGHTS

Virginia shooting: Alison Parker’s father in gun reform appeal

The father of Alison Parker, one of two journalists killed live on air, has appealed to US President Barack Obama to push through tougher gun laws.

BBC

Thailand arrests main suspect in Bangkok blast case

Thailand‘s prime minister announced that a second foreign national believed to be the main suspect in the country’s worst bombing at a Brahma temple here that claimed 20 lives has been arrested near the Cambodian border.

Times of India

Authorities believe arrested foreigner likely Erawan bomber

Bangkok Post

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

The biggest risk to Obama’s climate plan may be politics, not the courts

After releasing the Clean Power Plan the Obama administration must shift from offense to defense. The plan, which set the first national limits on carbon pollution from existing coal- and natural gas-fired power plants.

Guardian

Environment Minister denounces failure to resolve waste crisis

Environment Minister Machnouk said that his decision to suspend participation in the committee tasked with finding a solution to Lebanon’s waste management crisis was a denouncement of the current political class.

The Srar

Dozens of Lebanon protesters occupy environment ministry, call for minister to resign

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Rare nautilus sighted for the first time in 3 decades

In early August, biologist Peter Ward returned from the South Pacific with news that he encountered an old friend, one he hadn’t seen in over three decades.

Science News

Flu could one day be wiped out without the need for a vaccine

Flu could one day be wiped out without the need for a vaccine after scientists discovered how to ramp up the body’s own defences to the virus before it even enters the body

Telegraph.co.uk

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Economies of scale: Why small solar is better than big solar

Utilities imply that large-scale solar projects are more economical than small ones, yet the data are tell another story. Costs for transmission of utility-scale solar energy undermine better economics at the point of generation.

Renew Economy

Wall Street braces for stormy month: Dow plunges more than 300 points on weak data

New month, same old negative, scary, correction-like price action on Wall Street as the Dow plunged more than 300 points at the opening bell Tuesday.

USA TODAY

More China worries hit global stocks, oil

Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

US home prices rise steadily in June, a sign of improvement in housing market

U.S. home prices rose solidly in June, another sign of health in the housing market. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index rose 5 percent from a year earlier.

U.S. News & World Report

Portuguese government sees good news in higher tax revenue ahead of elections

Portugal’s center-right government is citing a jump in tax revenue as evidence the economy is growing based on its crackdown on tax evasion. Tax receipts between January and July were up almost 5 percent over 2014.

U.S. News & World Report

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Sustainable aid: The long-term solution to poverty

The statistics are staggering. According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die every day from poverty. For the 1.9 billion children living in the developing world, there are 640 million without adequate shelter, or 1 in 3 children.

Triple Pundit

Facebook launches Donate Now for NGOs

Newly announced Donate Now button is different from the feature that the social giant Facebook launched in 2013 after associating itself with WWF, American Red Cross and other major non-profits.

Dispatch Times

ENVIRONMENT

Hurricane season heats up with three in the Pacific and one in the Atlantic

Three hurricanes were roaring Monday in the Pacific Ocean as a fourth hurricane churned far out in the Atlantic. It’s the most powerful developing hurricane season in the central Pacific since 1994.

USA TODAY

Mutating polio virus linked to environment

Mutating polio is now a reality. Previously, polio was a medically manageable disease that could be easily countered by the polio vaccine, but it was considered a rare disease in the Western and European world.

Clapway

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Warwick Castle was built in 1068 by the Normans following William the Conqueror’s victory in the Battle of Hastings. (Photo by Tim Fields) Photo used under CC BY

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