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AI helps in the fight against marine litter.

Good News

Fight against marine litter and reduced under-five mortality

The two pieces of good news this month are about an underwater robot that removes litter from the sea and the succesful fight against under-five mortality.

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Financial sector

What is crowdfunding?

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by Rolf Drescher
Pre-natal care at the village level: GK-paramedic checking a pregnant woman’s urin probe.

Maternal health

Why paramedics and midwives matter

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by Manzur Kadir Ahmed

Development studies

Don’t get distracted by administrative concerns

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by Hans Dembowski
Urban growth must not lock in unsustainable approaches – selling potatoes in peripheral Dhaka.

Global affairs

Taxation serves sustainability

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by Hans Dembowski
In the fishing village of Bargny in Senegal, the first row of houses along the coast was washed out and then broke away.

Climate adaptation

Policy responses are needed

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by Nele Bünner
by Till Below
Hurricane Harvey approaching the coast of Texas on 25 August.

Global governance

Make paradigm shift happen

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by Hans Dembowski

Economics is driven by the wrong incentives

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by Hans Dembowski
More renewable energy is vital for achieving the Paris climate targets: a wind farm under construction in Germany.

Paris climate agreement

No time to rest on laurels

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by Thomas R. Loster
Due to global warming, thousands of pastoralists have lost livestock and been displaced in Ethiopia.

Least developed countries

Addressing our climate reality

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by Gebru Jember Endalew
On Earth Day (22 April), about 100,000 people took part in the March for Science in Washington, DC. Related rallies attracted some 70,000 demonstrators in Boston, 60,000 in Chicago and 50,000 each in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

USA

“The Republican party must wake up”

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by Jennifer Morgan
by Hans Dembowski