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Landsat photo of Tianjin explosion crater, (Photo by Artem Svetlov) Photo used under CC BY

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Earth‘s boreal forests can’t compete with climate change

A new study is calling on international policy makers to take steps towards ensuring the protection of the world’s boreal forests as global temperatures begin to climb.

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Experts puzzled as 30 whales stranded in ‘unusual mortality event’ in Alaska

Thirty large whales have recently washed ashore in Alaska, prompting a federal agency to declare an “unusual mortality event” and mount an official investigation into what could be killing so many marine mammals.

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Guardian

Massive glacier calf can be seen from space

The chunk of ice lost from the edge of Greenland’s Jakobshavn glacier is nearly five square miles in area, which might be the biggest calving event on record.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier sheds big ice chunk

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BBC

China rate cut gives stocks, oil, dollar relief; volatility high

Markets rebounded on Tuesday with world stocks, oil prices and bond yields all rising after China cut interest rates and banks’ reserve requirements in a bid to kick-start its wavering economic growth.

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Reuters

Europeans fear for rail system security after attempted terrorist attack

Even as Europeans hailed the courage of American tourists who thwarted a terrorist attack that could have ended in many dead and injured train passengers, many wonder what about the next time?

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TIME

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Train gunman had ‘terrorist intent,’ French prosecutor says

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CNN

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.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Philanthropy: A surprising rise in giving

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Barrons

A ‘new’ New Orleans emerges 10 years after hurricane Katrina

American taxpayers put New Orleans back on its feet after hurricane Katrina. Matt Haines, a young New Yorker who came to New Orleans in 2009 as part of AmeriCorps to help resurrect the city, took it from there.

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Christian Science Monitor

HUMAN RIGHTS

Iranian human rights defenders coming out massively in support of the Iran Deal

The Obama administration is clearly winning the battle over the Iran deal. Momentum is so strong in its favor that Obama may even be able to prevent a resolution rejecting the deal from coming to a vote in the Senate.

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Huffington Post

Record number of migrants arrive in Hungary

The latest surge of migrants crossing the Balkans has brought a record number to Hungary despite government efforts to quickly build a 4-meter (13-foot) high fence on the Serbian border to stop them.

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Houston Chronicle

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.

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Guardian

Too soon for ‘illogical’ US to return to Tehran

Iran‘s foreign minister said on Sunday it was too early to talk of reopening the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, as Britain restored its diplomatic mission four years after protesters ransacked the British ambassador’s residence.

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Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Tropical Storm Erika forms in Atlantic

Tropical Storm Erika formed overnight in the Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said. As of 8 a.m. ET, the storm had winds of 45 mph and was located 750 miles east of the Caribbean’s Leeward Islands

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USA TODAY

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Tropical Storm Erika prompts watches For Leeward Islands; potential threats elsewhere

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The Weather Channel

Typhoon Goni claims seven lives after torrential rain triggers landslides and floods

Seven people are dead and thousands have fled to higher ground as powerful Typhoon Goni brings torrential rains to the northern Philippines, triggering landslides and floods, officials said.

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DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Carnage on Wall Street signals fears about US economy

As U.S. stocks joined a global selloff to mark their biggest weekly decline since 2011, economists and investors cut their projections of what was already lackluster economic growth.

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CBS News

US trade gap widens 7 percent in June as imports jump

The U.S. trade deficit increased in June as solid consumer spending pulled in more imports, while the strong dollar restrained exports.

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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.

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U.S. News & World Report

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Dollar recovers against euro, yen

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MarketWatch

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.

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U.S. News & World Report

NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Facebook co-founder’s foundation awards $25 million to GiveDirectl

The foundation started by the Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife, Cari Tuna, awarded $25 million to GiveDirectly, a nonprofit that awards cash to extremely poor individuals in Kenya and Uganda.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NGOs call out Switzerland for pressuring Colombia on compulsory licences

Civil society groups are calling on the Swiss government to refrain from putting pressure on developing countries wishing to manufacture generic medicines without the consent of the patent holder.

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Intellectual Property Watch

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.

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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

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Telegraph.co.uk

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An older gentleman speeds past spectators on his penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler and ordinary. It was the first machine to be called a “bicycle”. (Photo by Mike Procario) Photo used under CC BY

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