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The Barents Sea snow crab has prompted an intense bout of legal bickering between the European Union, Norway, the U.S. and Russia. The real dispute, according to Hakai Magazine, may be about a different commodity: oil.
Hospitals in the city of Goma can handle the costs of natural childbirths. But mothers who have Cesarean deliveries or whose newborns need intensive care can incur higher bills – and one hospital won’t let them go home until they can pay.
Siku, an online tool that recently won a $750,000 grant from Google, aims to pull together native knowledge about dangerously thin sea ice and other conditions in the Arctic’s fast-changing landscape.
Those pushing to build Sites Reservoir hope funding designated for new water storage in Proposition 1 will help seal the deal, but the project must prove beneficial both to the public and to aquatic ecosystems.
An innovative school in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu is teaching the area’s poorest children for nothing, offering them the respect they need to thrive and an education to help them succeed.
The largest displacement camp housing Iraqis who fled the battle to recapture Mosul lies next to oil fields scorched by ISIS. The oil fields are still emitting toxic fumes that are sickening the camp’s residents.
In Zimbabwe, widows’ property is frequently stolen by their in-laws. While there are laws in place to prevent this, researchers say they’re difficult to enforce and that widows themselves lack awareness of their rights.
Half of the Arctic region’s frozen soils are expected to disappear even if international climate change targets are met. The resulting release of greenhouse gases could trigger an environmental disaster.
Research in the Cosumnes River watershed in the eastern Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region has shown the benefits to water storage and wildlife from floodplain restoration that could prove useful across the state.
On the Colombia-Venezuela border, Joe Parkin Daniels reports on the increasing numbers of people fleeing both ways over the frequently closed border to escape humanitarian problems in each of the countries.
The Philippines already has the highest teen pregnancy rate in Asia. Part two of our story on the country’s contraceptives crisis looks at how the Supreme Court’s restraining order could mean a staggering increase in unintended pregnancy and maternal mortality.
While Russia insists that economic development in the North won’t harm a fragile environment, Russian environmentalists note that the country’s oil companies continue to spill massive amounts of crude each year.
When combined, pesticides at sublethal levels can have deadly synergistic effects on fish – and new monitoring in the Bay Delta shows that the water is a soup of urban and agricultural insecticides, herbicides and fungicides.
We collect the highlights of our special focus on refugee education, including a series of in-depth reports on refugee integration into schools, and coverage of ideas and innovations expanding refugees’ access to education.
Even highly skilled refugees can’t just pick up where they left off in their new countries. These are the stories of several Syrian refugees trying to forge a new career and life in the U.S.
Warm currents are working their way into parts of the Arctic Ocean, disturbing the layer-cake-like composition of the water column and heating up the surface.
Many Palestinian women living in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem want to work. But their search for jobs is often blocked by slow bureaucracy, impossible demands and lack of support.
A ruling by the Philippine Supreme Court that suspends the renewal and new registration of contraceptives means that by 2020, condoms, abstinence and surgery could be the only birth control options available in the country.
As part of her tour of the Arctic through its literature, Margaret Williams, managing director of the World Wildlife Fund’s U.S. Arctic program, makes a virtual visit to Canada and finds the cruel impacts of colonization, as well as comfort in the stars that signal the sun’s return.
On International Street Children’s Day, Refugees Deeply speaks to Syrian students in Lebanon, some who had previously been out of school and on the streets for years, about the importance of education in their young lives.
On International Street Children’s Day, Refugees Deeply speaks to Syrian students in Lebanon, some who had previously been out of school and on the streets for years, about the importance of education in their young lives.
Here’s a round-up of confirmed, unconfirmed and conflicting information regarding the U.S. missile attack and its impact on the Bashar al-Assad government and the state of U.S.-Russian relations.
Plans to tinker with the planet’s atmosphere to combat climate change are terrifying, say researchers. They may also be necessary, given our sluggish efforts to curb carbon emissions.
According to estimates, more than 60,000 Colombians were forcibly disappeared during the decadeslong conflict with FARC, the majority of them men. We meet the women still searching for them, from their wives and mothers to forensic doctors and human rights experts.
In the first part of our series ‘Scattered from Israel,’ Gaelle Faure reports on the asylum seekers who were coerced to leave Israel for destinations in Africa, but, dismayed by their treatment there, risked their lives to take dangerous sea voyages to Europe.
As borders have tightened along the western Balkan route to Europe, more lone female refugees are arriving in Serbia having experienced violence and trafficking. Many who want to continue their journeys are using even riskier routes and never appear in official data.
The newly re-elected president of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North says the best way to advance the interests of his members is through quiet diplomacy rather than noisy confrontation.
A missile strike by the U.S. at a Syrian regime-held airfield was to deter future chemical attacks and should not be seen as a sign of escalating the conflict, writes Rachel Ansley of the Atlantic Council.
The majority of female students in higher education in Zimbabwe report having been sexually harassed, usually by teachers or non-academic staff. One NGO offers these young women a safe place to stay and the support they need to carry on with their education.
Greece pledged to help all refugee and migrant children in the country attend schools, but the E.U.-funded program has been mired in delays. Yiannis Baboulias reports from Athens on the efforts of a migrant women’s network to give refugee girls access to education.
As borders have tightened along the western Balkan route to Europe, more lone female refugees are arriving in Serbia having experienced violence and trafficking. Many who want to continue their journeys are using even riskier routes and never appear in official data.
Celebrating the end of the drought will be short-lived, as state officials stressed that California continue along its course to improve conservation and efficiency to prepare for future droughts.
The use of chemical weapons has gruesome effects, but they are just one of the many horrors suffered by those in Syria every day, writes Syria Deeply’s managing editor Alessandria Masi.
Syria Deeply speaks with experts in our community to understand President Donald Trump’s decision to carry out the first U.S. military strike against the Syrian government.
Syria Deeply speaks with experts in our community to understand whether the U.S. strike against Assad will deter the Syrian government – or other parties – from using chemical weapons in Syria.
Syria Deeply speaks with experts in our community to understand the potential fallout for Syria, the Middle East and the world from the first U.S. strike against Assad’s military.
Syria Deeply speaks with experts in our community to understand what to look for and what questions to ask in the aftermath of the U.S. cruise missile attack on Thursday.
Syria Deeply speaks with experts in our community to understand what Iran’s options and likely next moves in Syria will be after the U.S. cruise missile strike against Assad.
Syria Deeply speaks with experts in our community about how Russia can respond to the U.S. cruise missile attack on Syria and what its options in the region are.
Experts are divided over whether United States airstrikes on Syria in retaliation for a nerve gas attack signal moral policing or bad strategy, Middle East Eye reports.
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