Climate Change is Intensifying Humanitarian Crisis in War-Affected Yemen (peoplesdispatch.org)
Polycrisis, Unraveling, Simplification, or Collapse: Coming Soon to a Planet Near You? (www.resilience.org)
The Cascade Institute notes that “a global polycrisis occurs when crises in multiple global systems become causally entangled in ways that significantly degrade humanity’s prospects. These interacting crises produce harms greater than the sum of those the crises would produce in isolation, were their host systems not so...
UK Home Secretsry Suella Braverman encourages police chiefs to use stop and search powers more often to "seize dangerous weapons and prevent more knife crime attacks" (news.sky.com)
Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way (www.bbc.co.uk)
‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’ (www.theguardian.com)
US is losing Asia’s multilateral trade game (asiatimes.com)
[The Times] She thought she was unshockable, then two castrated Ukrainian soldiers arrived (www.thetimes.co.uk)
Global temperatures briefly spike above key climate threshold, scientists warn of more extremes (www.pbs.org)
America’s latest inflation wave is all about corporations ‘using excuses’ and ‘cover’ to increase profits, says top UBS economist (fortune.com)
“We’re seeing this expansion of margin under the cover of, ‘Oh, it’s a general inflation problem, we can’t help it,’ Paul Donovan of UBS said Thursday.
Genome Editing Used To Create Disease Resistant Rice (www.ucdavis.edu)
Mexican State of Nuevo León Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage (peoplesdispatch.org)
President Raisi’s Latin America Tour Aims to Build Solidarity with Non-Islamic Nations (orinocotribune.com)
Four alarming charts that show just how extreme the climate is right now | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Soaring temperatures. Unusually hot oceans. Record high levels of carbon pollution in the atmosphere and record low Antarctic ice. We’re only halfway through 2023 and so many climate records are being broken.