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Chinta and Samundri Davi found themselves submerged when flooding struck their village, Salempur, near Bihar, India, in August 2007. Increasingly, the affluent nations that are largely responsible for causing climate change are turning away refugees from places rendered uninhabitable by it. (Photo by Power of the image) Photo used under CC BY

Affluent countries deny entry to climate refugees

As the planet heats up, people are leaving their homes as regions become uninhabitable. Yet the countries most responsible for climate change are fortifying their borders to keep those most affected out.

Deutsche Welle

GOP senator: Trump trying to make ‘everybody crazy’ by threatening to place immigrants in sanctuary cities

CNN

Border town fights anti-immigrant militants

Residents of the Arizona border town La Gitana are pushing back against anti-immigrant extremists who have set up shop in their community, an unlikely mix of miners, ranchers, aging hippies, and artists.

Mother Jones

Land attacks stoke fear in Brazil’s Amazon

At least six people have been killed in a series of deadly Amazon land conflicts in Brazil, stoking fears of rising violence in the region under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

Al Jazeera

Indigenous tribe accuses Chile, Argentina of genocide

Representatives of South America’s indigenous Mapuche people have petitioned the international criminal court to take action against the governments of Chile and Argentina for alleged acts of genocide.

Guardian

Dolphin deaths linked to navy drills

A Greek marine conservation group says a “very unusual” increase in dolphin deaths in the Aegean Sea may be linked with recent Turkish naval exercises in the area.

ABC News

Glaciers melting faster than expected

USA TODAY

Floods in Iran reveal need for disaster fund

As Iranians continue to deal with the aftermath of deadly floods across the country and the government scrambles to provide relief, many are again discussing the need for a natural disasters insurance fund.

Al Jazeera

South African gold mining takes deadly toll

Driven by desperation, tens of thousands of women are risking death, disease and sexual violence to scrape out a living in South Africa’s informal mining sector.

Guardian

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Taking on a S. African mining firm

BBC

Evolution caps recovery after mass extinctions

It takes at least 10 million years for life to fully recover after a mass extinction, a speed limit for the recovery of species diversity that is well known among scientists. Researchers are now linking this lag to evolution.

Phys.org

HUMAN RIGHTS

ICC won’t investigate war crimes in Afghanistan

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected a request to investigate alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.

BBC

Some praise Québec religious symbols ban

In Québec, where many have come out strongly against Bill 21, known as the religious symbols ban, some are praising it as a necessary line between church and state.

CBC News

Unwed Saudi women, afraid, leave babies

In Saudi Arabia, where unmarried pregnant women face prosecution and jail time, babies born out of wedlock are often abandoned on the streets.

The Independent

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

In Kashmir, violence shapes daily life

In Kashmir, cross-border shelling and constant clashes between local militant groups and Indian troops fuels a relentless cycle of violence, which has a severe impact on daily life in the region.

CNN

‘Upskirting’ now a crime in England, Wales

Upskirting is now a criminal offense in England and Wales after a campaign by a woman targeted at a music festival. Offenders will face up to two years in prison for taking an image or video under somebody’s clothing.

BBC

Community service for petty crimes in Nigeria

Deutsche Welle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Undersea robots saving Great Barrier Reef

A team of Australian scientists built an underwater robot that can deliver larval coral to the Great Barrier reef, where they hope it will help restore the reef to some of its former glory, before it was ravaged by climate change.

Futurism

New human species discovered in Philippines

In a jungle cave in the Philippines, scientists have discovered fossils of what may be a new human species they call Homo luzonensis. The teeth and bones combine primitive and modern traits in a way never previously seen together.

Inside Science

GLOBAL HEALTH

Congo’s Ebola shaping up as global emergency

A Red Cross official said he’s “more concerned than ever” about the possible spread of Ebola virus after a new spike in cases, as the WHO met on whether to declare the outbreak in Congo an international health emergency.

NBCNews.com

Fungicide use linked to C. auris outbreak

Recent reports link an outbreak of drug-resistant Candida auris fungal infections to the pervasive use of fungicides on farms worldwide.

Mother Jones

Studies find touch is vital to human health

Studies that involved as little as 15 daily minutes of physical contact found that touch alone, even devoid of the other supportive qualities it usually signifies, seems to have myriad benefits

The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

Police officer throws party for 9-year-old

When no one from 9-year-old Thomas Daniel’s class came to his birthday party, a police officer in Grand Rapids, Michigan stepped up to make his celebration extra special.

ABC News

Artist uses truce flag to revisit US Civil War

Hoping to start a new conversation about the U.S. Civil War and its profound racial effects, an artist conceived a massive version of the Confederate Flag of Truce, long overshadowed by the Confederate battle flag.

CNN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Donors give $15.7M to University of Guelph

Donors Stu and Kim Lang gave $15.7 million to Ontario‘s University of Guelph, the largest gift in the university’s history, in support of its school of business and economics.

Philanthropy News Digest

Taylor Swift donates $113K for anti-LGBTQ law

Taylor Swift made a surprise $113,000 donation to the Tennessee Equality Project, a Nashville group which convened more than 100 religious leaders to denounce six anti-LGBT bills, going through state legislature.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Peru’s indigenous battle Amazon poachers

In Peru’s Amazon, indigenous people are working to protect their land from a recent rash of new timber poachers and squatters who are breaking the laws intended to safeguard the forests.

National Geographic

Starbucks gives $1.3M for paper cup recycling

A $1.3 million fund to help expand and improve paper cup recycling facilities across the UK will be launched by the coffee giant Starbucks and environmental charity Hubbub.

Guardian

4,500 Amazon employees call on the company to take climate action

EcoWatch

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITY

Facebook spent $22.6M on Zuckerberg security

A regulatory filing shows Facebook spent $22.6 million on Mark Zuckerberg’s security in 2018, double what it previously paid.

Guardian

In Kenya, leaders flag oil project concerns

In a panel discussion in Nairobi, civil society leaders said stronger community engagement is needed for oil revenues to bring sustainable development to northwestern Kenya, where oil deposits were discovered.

Devex

Taxes in Sweden: How one Nordic country balances growth with high taxes

CNBC

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A health worker administers MenAfriVac™ shot in a pilot immunization campaign in Burkina Faso in September 2010. (Photo by World Health Organization) Photo used under CC BY

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