Cutting the funds to deliver 116,000 medical kits to treat victims of rape saved U.S. taxpayers $2 million. But it meant many women in eastern Congo could not longer get the pills they needed to prevent medicine, HIV, and deadly sexually transmitted diseases. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

It looks like 2025 will end up at about 1.47°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline, making it likely the third hottest year in the last 120,000+ years. Meanwhile, the 3-year running average is going to end the year above 1.50°C for the first time.

Thousands of civilians are being held for ransom after the RSF captured El Fashir, with kidnappers staging torture and executions on camera if families cannot pay. One man could only pay for his wife and children; he was killed in front of them www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

In 2024, renewable energy accounted for over 90% of global power capacity expansion. That is because it makes economic sense. IRENA_DAT_RE_Capacity_Highlights_2025-1.pdf

Sudanese children - their parents dead or missing - are wandering alone through a burned desert strewn with bodies, desperately seeking help. Some are badly wounded; all are starving. Many saw parents killed; others just lost them in the chaos www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Just two decades ago, China had little capacity to manufacture cars — and owning one was considered a novelty. Today, China produces and exports more cars than any other country in the world. Meanwhile we in Europe still pretend we can somehow stop EVs from taking off by holding on to old tech.

The intimacy of the cruelty in Sudan's El Fashir: A wounded man appeals to an RSF commander. “I know you,” he tells Abu Lulu. “I called out to you a while ago.” “I will never have mercy,” the commander responds. “Our job is only killing.” He shoots him dead. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

To assume all businesses want to strip away green regulations would be very wrong Companies are complaining about EU failing to deliver on laws originally intended to come into force at the beginning of 2025 to stop commodities tied to deforestation being sold in EU www.ft.com/content/7593...

Climate curious? Don't wade thru the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — a 3,000-page tome of jargon heavy enough to knock out a hungry polar bear. You can play a card game with some mates instead - and still get the science. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

The girl died, sweating and shivering. The boy's hand slipped from his mother's as she screamed. Both could have been saved by drugs that the U.S. had already bought, paid for and shipped - only a couple of kilometers away. But USAID cuts had stopped deliveries www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Sudan's civil war has seen a proliferation of anti-aircraft weapons: deadly drones, MANPADS, and truck-borne surface-to-air missile systems. Even Turkey's advanced Akinci drones, which the military used to help retake the capital, are getting shot down. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in the besieged Sudanese city of el-Fasher, cut off by 19 miles of earthen berms built by rebel forces now attacking the town. @khoureld.bsky.social and her @washingtonpost.com colleagues have been speaking with some of those behind the dirt walls.

Love & pain in Sudan's el Fashir - the father trying to comfort his daughter, raped when she went to pick wild weeds for her starving family. The man praying a last time with his dying brother, shot as they fled. The mother whose young sons are missing. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Excellent report by @propublica.org on abuses migrant workers face under the H2A visas. Sex trafficking, kidnapping, beatings, deaths. Sofi ended up bound in the back of a pickup, her abuser smearing her blood on a shrine. Police arrived before he killed her. projects.propublica.org/h2a-visa-far...

The U.S. Air Force has started upgrading the 747 jetliner that the government of Qatar donated to the U.S. this summer, the Air Force said in a statement this week. Industry and Pentagon officials have said the extensive upgrades could cost as much as $1 billion. nyti.ms/4prxszi

The last fight for Sudan's capital. Families desperate to escape. An influx of new fighters, drugged up and fleeing defeat. And a massacre denied by RSF leadership, but then proudly owned by a commander on the ground. These were the last days in Salha. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

0.1% of Dartmoor in good ecological condition. And each Dartmoor ewe loses its owner £16.90 – the ecological and economic craziness of the current sheep grazing regime well explained by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social. Time to change how this amazing place is managed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A U.S. company airdropped food to empty villages in South Sudan that had been attacked by government forces. Some were too afraid to get the aid; others crept back, fearful but starving. Here's what happened next: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Children clung to life in Sudan by the slenderest of threads, supported by community soup kitchens. Then the USAID funding cuts came, and their mothers watched them starve to death one by one. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

House approves Trump’s massive tax and immigration package
The legislation would extend tax cuts and add billions in new spending — and trillions in new debt. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... (Az delegation’s votes below)

U.S. methane gas can never meet the EU methane rules especially with Trump removing regulations. Everybody knew that. So... The EU has decided to create some loopholes that will make dirty US LNG appear clean. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some enviro nonprofits of tax-exempt status for Earth Day, by @jendlouhy.bsky.social & @akshatrathi.bsky.social 🎁 Gift Link: Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Revealed: world’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges again www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Incredible report by @newyorker: paid providers of care in US jails have allowed inmates to die of hunger and thirst, screaming for help; one had his lower leg rot off; others eaten by rodents or insects after they died. Some "look like famine victims" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Mary, a Kenyan HIV outreach worker, has 4 children of her own. When a colleague was murdered, she took in the 4 orphans, one HIV+. In Jan, the US suspended the programs supporting the family. The kids were thrown out of school; today, they were evicted. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

New paper alert! Zombie fires overwinter, going underground to smolder through winter before reemerging. Until recently, we knew these fires occurred but knew little of their ecological or carbon impacts. Along with my amazing coauthors, we set out to change this. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How Trump is “effectively institutionalizing disinformation,” pushing a “new era of post-truth politics” that enables his administration to use fictions to promote its agenda. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b...

A dark joke in some diplomatic circles: "Call the U.S. for aid, China for trade and the Russians when you want to kill someone." - so what happens when the U.S. cuts its programs? with @robyndixon.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

BREAKING: Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 235 Palestinians, according to local hospitals. Follow AP's live coverage.

They called him "El Hombre” — he moved cocaine by the ton. Last year, Columbian officers nabbed him after U.S. law enforcement taught them advanced skills on tracking fugitives. Now that program is shut down. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

🦋 In 20 years, the contiguous U.S. lost 22 percent of its butterflies, according to a groundbreaking new study published today. We got the data, and I made a tool that lets you find out what's happening with butterfly species in your town. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 1/3

A trove of documents and communications provided to The Post reveals how a Turkish company covertly funneled weapons to the Sudanese army - and links between the RSF and another Turkish company. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

Many have floated the idea of Christian organizations filling the gap left by USAID. But they have been devastated by the cuts, which USAID says will cost the lives of millions of young children who will die from malnutrition and easily preventable diseases. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...

President Trump’s sweeping freeze on U.S. foreign assistance has threatened programs intended to counter al-Shabab bombmakers, contain the spread of al-Qaeda across West Africa and secure Islamic State prisoners in the Middle East. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

We toured the expanding battlefield in Puntland, including recently discovered Islamic State caves; spoke to imprisoned IS deserters; interviewed Somali and U.S. officials; and reviewed evidence collected from captured phones and drones. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

“We’ve seen this sort of thing happen in evacuations of war zones,” one official said. “I just can’t believe we’re doing it for the flippant kind of political pageantry that this administration seems to be doing it for.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“We’ve seen this sort of thing happen in evacuations of war zones,” one USAID official said. “I just can’t believe we’re doing it for the flippant kind of political pageantry that this administration seems to be doing it for.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy: https://buff.ly/3QoK4r0 It Can Be Done. We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #vote

Trump has threatened to cut all U.S. aid to South Africa while claiming, without evidence, that the government there is confiscating land, wading into a sensitive racial issue & deepening divisions between the US & SA over the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Really enjoying this disturbing and insightful book by @schwartzstein.bsky.social examining the tightening cycle of climate change and violence

Sudan: A group of soldiers forces a rope into a man’s mouth, then throws him off a bridge and shoots at him in the water. Dozens of dead young menl ie in jumbled piles. A soldier leans over a bound and writhing captive, sawing at his neck with a blade. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Israel used AI to dramatically expand its bombing campaign, analysing soil pattern changes or the likelihood of a civilian becoming a militant. "Several of the division’s officers have long held concerns that the technology ... concealed underlying flaws." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The U.S. has declared Sudan's Rapid Support Force is committing genocide and sanctioned RSF leader Hemedti - a dramatic departure from previous U.S. policy, which attempted to treat the warring sides evenly. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

“Everyone deserves to have the power of music in their lives, no matter where they are born..." Wonderful piece from @khoureld.bsky.social about Ghetto Classics, which introduces children from some of Nairobi's poorest neighbourhoods to classical music: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

Rwandan exiles who've spoken out against their government say their families back home have faced retaliation - from having passports withheld to being jailed, torture or disappeared. These are their stories. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...