By Heather Long 13 July 2018 (The Washington Post) – Prices rose at their highest clip since 2012 over the past year, the Labor Department reported Thursday.The 2.9 percent inflation for the 12-month period ending in June is a sign of a growing economy, but it’s also a painful development for workers, whose tepid wage […]
By Nita Bhalla; editing by Claire Cozens 4 July 2018 NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — After a severe drought last year, East Africa was hit by two months of heavy rains, disrupting the lives of millions of people in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Uganda. Tens of thousands of survivors of Kenya’s worst floods in recent […]
By Felipe Calderón 29 June 2018 (Newsweek) – Home is a place of stability and security. It is a place where families come together to work towards and celebrate mutual prosperity. But as the human and economic toll of climate change continues to rise, we face legitimate risk of this sense of home being uprooted. […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, 19 June 2018 (Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy) – Billions of people in thousands of cities around the world will be at risk from climate-related heatwaves, drought, flooding, food shortages, blackouts and social inequality by mid-century without bold and urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Fortunately, cities […]
By Paul Chisholm 23 June 2018 (NPR) – The fact that rural, economically disadvantaged parts of the country broke heavily for the Republican candidate in the 2016 election is well known. But Medicare data indicate that voters in areas that went for Trump weren’t just hurting economically — many of them were receiving prescriptions for […]
20 June 2018 (UN News) – Although more people are leading better lives than a decade ago, persistent poverty and hunger, as well as rapid urbanization, are challenging global efforts to create a more just and equitable world, according to a United Nations report launched on Wednesday.The study provides a snapshot of progress towards achieving […]
By Morgan Winsor 20 June 2018 (ABC News) – Record high numbers of men, women, and children were driven from their homes across the world last year due to war, violence, and persecution, according to a new report by the United Nations’ refugee agency. The UNHCR’s annual Global Trends study found that a staggering 68.5 […]
By Susan Scutti 8 June 2018 (CNN) – Suicide rates increased by 25 percent across the United States over nearly two decades ending in 2016, according to research published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Twenty-five states experienced a rise in suicides by more than 30 percent, the government report finds. […]
30 May 2018 (University of Melbourne) – Australia will still be the lucky country when it comes to changes in local climate as a result of climate change if global average surface temperatures reach the 1.5°C or 2°C limit set by the Paris agreement. But in other countries right across the tropics, including close neighbour […]
By Scott W. Allard 3 June 2018 (Business Insider) – In the US, the geography of poverty is shifting.According to a May report from the Pew Research Center, since 2000, suburban counties have experienced sharper increases in poverty than urban or rural counties.This is consistent with research across the U.S. over the past decade – […]
