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The state of Assam in northeast India is synonymous with high-quality tea. But the much-loved brew comes at a cost: unfair wages, malnutrition and the highest maternal mortality rate in the country.
Since the start of the Syrian conflict, Lebanon’s government has officially adopted a policy of ‘disassociation’ toward the war next door. However, now some Lebanese political parties and organizations allied with Bashar al-Assad seem to be trying to overthrow the policy.
Opening a beer and wine store isn’t an obvious approach to addressing a community’s devastating relationship with drinking. But Iqaluit is taking that step in the hope of reducing consumption of bootlegged hard liquor.
Syria Deeply has gathered data and mapped major attacks on Syrian health facilities that provided maternity, pediatric and obstetrics and gynecology services.
While women are active and successful mediators at the grassroots level, they remain largely invisible in international peacemaking. Dr. Catherine Turner says it is urgent to raise the profile of women mediators.
Activists are hopeful that other countries will follow Lebanon, Jordan and Tunisia in abolishing the laws that let rapists walk free by marrying their victims. But they say more needs to be done to end the practice for good.
New research by Australian scientists suggests that underwater air guns used to search for oil and gas deposits are so loud that they could change humpback whales’ migratory behavior.
No one seems to know how much water a massive desert industrial complex will ultimately require. But treated urban wastewater may help protect the imperiled Truckee River as more big companies move in.
A health survey of Inuit communities in northern Quebec found widespread food insecurity and other problems 13 years ago. A follow-up now underway will see how much things have changed.
The Philippines is struggling to find solutions to its soaring teen pregnancy rates, and finding that addressing the problem requires interventions that go beyond contraception education and access.
Smugglers have twice forced African migrants off their boats near Yemen this month, leaving dozens to drown. Fatima Mohie-Eldin from Muftah explains the two deadly episodes and looks at why young Ethiopians and Somalis are still trying to sail to war-torn Yemen.
An FAO study finds that more than 100 commercial seafood species ingest microplastic, which can be contaminated with toxins. More worrying are the unknown health effects of even smaller nanoplastics.
Vaginal microbicides are meant to give women autonomy over how they protect themselves against HIV. But a recent study set in Zambia shows that social ideas of masculinity mean men get to dictate how and when women use microbicides.
The Arctic Council’s Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment working group gives Indigenous voices a meaningful say over sustainable solutions, making it a model worth emulating, says Steven Fry, a master’s student in international studies from the University of Washington.
With millions of Nepalese men leaving their homes to work in the Gulf states, women are taking on new responsibilities, beyond what has previously been expected of them in a largely patriarchal society. But some are finding that old attitudes die hard.
Afghan women need a bigger role in the nation’s peacebuilding efforts, says Quhramaana Kakar, one of Afghanistan’s leading female peacemakers. But, she tells News Deeply, ‘It will take political will.’
Using the Brazilian martial art that combines dance, chanting and acrobatics, one initiative is teaching Congolese children to overcome the violence they’ve grown up with through self-confidence and respect.
Solar panel installations have primarily been installed on land. Now two California water utilities are building floating solar-power projects at their reservoirs to reap energy savings and other benefits.
The ocean has lost 2 percent of its oxygen in just 50 years. Now scientists have for the first time measured a devastating loss of oxygen in ancient oceans, which could help them quantify future losses.
Nenets reindeer herders have some counterintuitive strategies to lessen the harm of heavy drinking, but these approaches are creating problems as nomads settle into villages.
For many Syrian women, destruction of the country’s medical system means access to health facilities can be determined by location. But as hospitals and clinics continue to come under attack, civil society organizations are trying to fill the gap in women’s healthcare.
In Kenya’s largest refugee camp, a young Somali mother lives in hiding amid constant death threats from her ex-husband. With U.S. refugee resettlement frozen, all her efforts to leave the country have so far been in vain. Ayaan tells us her story in her own words.
Marine researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, mapped out the potential of the open ocean to support farmed fish and came to some surprising conclusions.
With a higher proportion of women in Parliament than any other country, Rwanda seems to be a model of equal representation and empowerment. But politicians and rights campaigners say the nation’s women still struggle to be heard.
Sediment-laden water has helped the Bay escape the worst effects of nutrient pollution so far, but that’s changing and it could hasten the growth of algae dangerous to the ecosystem and humans.
Ufra Mir is Kashmir’s first – and so far, only – ‘peace psychologist.’ In this strife-ridden region, she is trying to help women find peace in their lives and build it in their communities.
In Tanzania, an organization providing free obstetric fistula operations is changing the lives of many women who suffer from the condition but are unable to have the expensive corrective surgery.
The chairman of the newly established Syrian International Business Association, Samer Chamsi-Pasha, says the Syrian diaspora needs to mobilize to help countries hosting Syrian refugees.
The Saami Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Mental Health and Substance Use has found success in a strategy that leans heavily on exposing its clients to the outdoors.
Uganda has made progress on HIV/AIDS, but activists say discrimination is still rampant. Now, two women who say they were fired after forced testing revealed them to be HIV positive are fighting back.
One-fifth of Hong Kong’s prison population is female, the highest proportion of any major country in the world. Activists say local laws are stacked against women, in particular foreign women.
Russia’s power broker role in Syria negotiations means that any future debates around a new constitution will be an attempt to solidify Moscow’s proposal for the de facto partitioning Syria, while maintaining Assad’s position, writes journalist Lorenzo Trombetta.
As people trickle back to Calais after the demolition of the Jungle camp, authorities are doing all they can to prevent another camp from forming. In this photo essay, Julien Pitinome meets some of the refugees hiding out in forests and running from authorities.
Scientists have found four times as much potentially toxic microplastic on the seabed as on the surface of the ocean – and it’s being consumed by tiny creatures essential to the marine ecosystem.
Diamond Valley in rural Nevada has a critically overdrafted aquifer that supports its farming economy. Some irrigators want to shift to a market-based system to limit pumping, but the community is divided.
The coral bleaching event that devastated reefs worldwide during the past three years is over for now, but as ocean temperatures continue to rise, bleaching is likely to continue on a regional level.
Nepal has banned the practice of banishing menstruating women and girls to sheds. Activists have welcomed the new law, but say there is more work to be done to change people’s minds about the tradition, which has led to a number of deaths in recent years.
Scientists are not sure what to make of an unprecedented fire raging in western Greenland, but they suspect it is another sign of the impact of climate change in the Arctic.
On the Thai-Myanmar border, refugees who fled one of the world’s longest civil wars live in limbo, with alarmingly high suicide rates. As their options for resettlement narrow, some are beginning to return to Myanmar and the challenges of reintegration.
High Country News: As the climate changes, dams face new challenges for water rights and releases. In Idaho, a fight over surplus water in wet years is now before the state Supreme Court.
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