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Scientists have identified a ‘biogeographic boundary’ for commercially valuable marine animals in the northwest Atlantic that divides genetically distinct populations of the same species. As temperatures rise, that dividing line is moving north.
Highlights from a closing session, organized by NGO CSW/NY and News Deeply, on the outcomes of the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women and takeaways for implementation and inclusion.
So-called reconciliation deals have become a coercive tool for the Syrian government to reclaim areas that have fallen outside its control, writes lawyer and researcher Marika Sosnowski.
Traditional emergency responses have focused on providing food and medical care to address hunger. But researchers say there may be an opportunity to do more.
They hear about the abuse and know they will be working illegally, but young women still travel to the Middle East to work as domestic workers. To help understand why, photojournalist Jihad Abaza documented the lives of three migrant women working for a family in Egypt.
Sangini Cooperative Bank was the only financial institution in Mumbai to offer sex workers access to savings and credit. Now that the bank has closed, the women are left with only two options: hide their money or risk losing it to moneylenders and con men.
Colorado is projected to see a water shortage of more than 500,000 acre-feet by 2050, mainly in fast-growing Front-Range cities from Denver to Fort Collins. Critics say the growth demands more conservation, not more water development projects.
Much of L.A.’s water comes from hundreds of miles away. A new report from UCLA is challenging the city to think bigger about its plans to source more water locally in coming decades.
Since democracy returned to The Gambia last year, many Gambians are coming home, including from Libya with E.U. aid. Some returnees are warning others against the journey, but many are frustrated that returns and deterrence took precedence over reintegration and jobs.
Aquaculture proponents view the ocean off Southern California as an ideal place for an emerging industry. The key, new research found, will be to carefully locate facilities to minimize environmental risks and conflicts with other marine uses.
Tens of thousands of people have fled the eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus in recent weeks. Many of the hundreds of thousands who remain, however, are hiding in underground shelters, with little access to food, water and sunlight.
As the International Seabed Authority writes regulations to govern the mining of the ocean floor for valuable minerals, delegates at the U.N.-chartered organization’s recent meeting stressed the need to ensure unique deep ocean animals and habitats are protected.
New research underscores the fact that malnutrition, while rampant in middle-income countries, is often ignored by donors, leaving those countries to bear the burden of nutrition programs.
MIT scientists have developed a soft-skinned robotic fish that can study marine life up close and personal in coral reefs and other ecosystems without altering their behavior.
Ocean microbes are key to global carbon and oxygen cycles, but they aren’t well studied due to challenges observing them at the right time and place. Now researchers have developed a new autonomous robot and sampling device that could help crack the microbial code.
States that share Colorado River water are negotiating a Drought Contingency Plan, but a recent lawsuit in California’s Imperial Irrigation District, a main player in the talks, is making things harder.
For unmarried women living with their partners in Uganda, there is no law – legal or customary – to stop them from losing their homes when their relationships end.
Fall-run Chinook salmon from California’s Sacramento River have been deemed ‘overfished’ by officials. But fishers disagree with the designation and say upstream issues are at fault.
The activist group Greenpeace, which tracked krill fishing vessels near sensitive Southern Ocean habitats, argues that the fishery is putting pressure on an ecosystem already threatened by climate change.
Seven years after residents of Eastern Ghouta took to the streets in anti-regime protests, pro-government forces are advancing on the rebel-held enclave in a significant step toward retaking control of the entire country.
Over the last decade, Rwanda’s government has launched a series of initiatives to help increase women’s economic participation. But many woman entrepreneurs say policies and regulations still make it difficult for them to launch and grow their own businesses.
The home-based workers of Pakistan are unprotected by law, leaving them open to economic abuse from their families and exploitation by middlemen. But experts disagree on how best to help them.
As hurricanes become more destructive in a warming climate, coral reefs protect coastal property worth billions of dollars. Now Mexico is taking out the world’s first insurance policy on a coral reef to ensure its restoration after storms strike.
Water managers in New Mexico will be relying on stored water to meet ecological, agricultural and water supply needs as the runoff from this winter is expected to be notably low.
New parents say they do not have the resources or the knowledge to provide their children with the nutrition they need. And the government has no strategy to assist them.
Will the week’s sea ice be thin or thick or not there at all? New kinds of satellite data and better computer modeling will provide crucial information to Arctic Ocean communities and industries.
Tired of relying on their husbands, who are often away for months, a group of Maasai women began making and selling beauty products made from aloe. With the profits, they now contribute to their household incomes and help support community members in need.
Should southern Syria become a new battlefront in the struggle between Israel and Iran, it is likely to inadvertently allow for an affiliate of the Islamic State group to expand its territorial reach and consolidate power, writes journalist Abdulrahman al-Masri.
Scientists are investigating the role microbiomes play in coral health, trying to identity those microbial traits that make coral reefs resilient as ocean temperatures rise and bleaching events accelerate.
Nine teams are advancing in the XPRIZE Foundation’s $7 million contest to create technologies that will scale up humanity’s ability to understand and chart the deep ocean.
From a partnership with Mexico to treating brackish groundwater, Arizona is exploring opportunities to incorporate desalinated water into its long-term water supply planning.
A new report from scientists at the University of California, Davis, says that the controversial Delta tunnels, along with habitat restoration projects, would benefit ailing fish species like salmon.
New data shows no African countries are on track to meet 2030 targets to end hunger and malnutrition. A new initiative, led by African heads of state, looks to change that.
The government’s endgame in Eastern Ghouta is to overtake the last opposition holdout near the capital. But the bloody strategy Damascus is using to get there is just as important, writes Lina Khatib of Chatham House.
With more nations considering creating shark sanctuaries, new research shows that strict fishing bans can help predator populations recover rapidly, as has been the case on a remote Australian reef.
Japan’s asylum system is more nuanced than the headline numbers suggest but it makes no effort to change its hardline image. A major donor to UNHCR, even as the population drops there is no sign of the drawbridge being lowered.
In our WhatsApp story for International Women’s Day, we used real-time updates to understand the challenges three women face during the course of a typical work day. Here we replicate the story with further insight into the obstacles that keep so many women from gaining stable and equal work.
Famed Chinook salmon are getting smaller, according to a new study analyzing 40 years of data. The research feeds a debate over who or what is shrinking the salmon – people or other predators – and what it means for efforts to save both endangered fish and marine mammals.
The East African country has long prioritized curbing malnutrition, but when the results were coming in too slow, officials decided to evaluate just where its nutrition spending was – and was not – going.
With the average age of commercial fishers now over 50, the state is trying to figure out ways to break down barriers that are increasingly keeping young people from working the sea.
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