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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

Europe’s migrant crisis spins out of control

As many as 50 bodies of migrants were found in an abandoned truck near the Austrian-Hungary border, highlighting the crisis Europe faces in dealing with the greatest deluge of displaced people since World War II.

USA TODAY

Migrant crisis in photos: Hundreds of thousands cross deadly passages to enter Europe In 2015

International Business Times

China’s economic judders bring questions – and opportunity

The collapse in Chinese markets has brought into focus a question that Western nations have been grappling with since the 2008 financial crisis: how much, if anything, stock markets have to do with the real economy.

Telegraph.co.uk

Arctic nations joust but North Pole payoff may be years away

Even as melting Arctic glaciers threaten to swamp shorelines, nations from Russia to the U.S. are betting that warming temperatures also will unlock trillions of dollars in new wealth.

Alaska Dispatch news

Central Asia’s rapidly melting glaciers could lose half their ice by 2050

The Weather Channel

Eight civilians martyred in Indian firing

In the bloodiest violation of the ceasefire at the Sialkot Working Boundary, the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) killed eight innocent Pakistani civilians and injured more than 57, including many women and children.

The News International

As tensions between India, Pakistan grow, Kashmir border villages suffer

U.S. News & World Report

Thai police arrest foreign man over Bangkok bombing

Police hunting the perpetrators of Thailand’s deadliest bombing arrested a foreigner they said matched the description of a man who left a bag at the crowded site of a blast in Bangkok.

Reuters

Thai police hunt more suspects after Bangkok bomb arrest

Reuters

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

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.

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.

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.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Tropical Storm Erika‘s projected path shifts to Florida’s west coast

Predictions show Tropical Storm Erika making landfall on Florida’s southwestern coast, near Naples. The storm is forecasted to then move north-northeast up the center of the state, toward Central Florida.

Orlando Sentinel

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Waterlogged Tampa Bay braces for Tropical Storm Erika — and more flooding

Tampa Bay Times

Next Texas energy boom: solar

A new energy boom is taking shape in the oil fields of west Texas, but it’s not what you think. It’s solar.

Wall Street Journal

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.

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.

ABC News

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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

Dollar recovers against euro, yen

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.

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

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

Coming out of its shell: A rare Nautilus sighting

R & D Magazine

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

Photo of the Day

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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