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• Syrian Crematory Is Hiding Mass Killings of Prisoners, U.S. Says

  By konigludwig on May 17, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  WASHINGTON — The United States accused the Syrian government on Monday of using a crematory to hide mass murders at a prison where thousands are believed to have been summarily executed in the nation’s civil war. The assertion, based on… Read More ›

• Ebola Returns to the Democratic Republic of Congo

  By konigludwig on May 14, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  A single death has been confirmed—now public health officials must keep an outbreak from becoming an epidemic By Erin Blakemore It’s been three years since the Democratic Republic of Congo faced down its last epidemic of Ebola. Now, a case… Read More ›

• Yemen’s shameful war

  By konigludwig on April 1, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Two years ago, a tribal conflict in Yemen widened into a full-scale war after intervention by Saudi Arabia. Today, two-thirds of the population is starving. The world can no longer look away… By Matthias von Hein The richest country in… Read More ›

• A Push for Diesel Leaves London Gasping Amid Record Pollution

  By konigludwig on February 27, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  London is choking from record levels of pollution, much of it caused by diesel cars and trucks, as well as wood-burning fires in private homes, a growing trend. It has been bad enough to evoke comparisons to the Great Smog… Read More ›

• Ahwaz’s environmental woes at the epicenter of crisis in Iran

  By konigludwig on February 27, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  By Daniel Brett Over recent days, Iran has been rocked by massive protests in its southwestern Arab-majority Khuzestan province as power stations have failed and water supplies have been cut off. Dust storms and poor weather in this region, where… Read More ›

• Humans causing climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces

  By konigludwig on February 12, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Researchers behind ‘Anthropocene equation’ say impact of people’s intense activity on Earth far exceeds that of natural events spread across millennia By Melissa Davey For the first time, researchers have developed a mathematical equation to describe the impact of human… Read More ›

• Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh to Be Relocated to Remote Island

  By konigludwig on February 1, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s government is moving forward with a plan to relocate Rohingya refugees staying in camps near the country’s largest tourist resort towns to a remote island that is underwater for much of the year. A cabinet order… Read More ›

• Women’s March Against Trump Turns Into Global Day of Action

  By konigludwig on January 19, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  Over 600 marches will take place in 57 countries around the world By Nika Knight The Women’s March on Washington on January 21 has gone global, with over 600 “sister marches” planned in 57 countries that same day, as an… Read More ›

• America’s Failure — and Russia and Iran’s Success — in Syria’s Cataclysmic Civil War

  By konigludwig on January 13, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  By John Judis Joshua Landis is head of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and publishes the influential blog “Syria Comment.” He is, perhaps, the nation’s foremost expert on Syria. He has been consistently right… Read More ›

• China’s Smog Cancels Hundreds of Flights, Closes Highways

  By konigludwig on January 1, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  BEIJING —Heavy smog in northern China on Sunday caused hundreds of flights to be canceled and highways to shut, disrupting the first day of the new year holiday. Large parts of the north were hit by hazardous smog in mid-December,… Read More ›