Money trees: U.S. cities find new ways of valuing urban forests

In the face of a warming planet and breakneck urbanization, U.S. policymakers are asking how best urban trees can be protected and utilized

Cover up or be censored: Cambodia orders women not look sexy on Facebook

'Go to their places and order them to stop live-streaming until they change to proper clothes,' Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday


Irish regulator readies draft decisions in first big tech privacy probes

Facebook has come under most scrutiny since new rules came into force in mid-2018 with eight individual probes, plus two into WhatsApp and one into Facebook-owned Instagram


Macho culture seen putting women off data science jobs

Analysts warn a failure to diversify the male-dominated science sector could result in biased technology that discriminates against women


Australia to hold wide-ranging enquiry into disastrous bushfires

A six-month commission will investigate preparedness for future bushfires and the need for any changes to the law to clarify who is responsible for overseeing emergency authorities


Google plans to move UK users' accounts outside EU jurisdiction

The shift, prompted by Brexit, will leave the sensitive personal information of tens of millions with less protection and within easier reach of British law enforcement


FACTBOX-How the next EU budget will tackle climate change

European Council President wants at least a quarter of 2021-27 spending to further climate goals, including the ultimate ambition to make the EU "climate neutral" by 2050


California to make state buildings available to house homeless

California's homeless population soared 16% last year to around 151,000 with a statewide scarcity of affordable housing one of the root causes


'Nothing left': Kenyan mother's fields stripped by locust swarm

Locust swarms, first sighted in December, have already destroyed tens of thousands of hectares (acres) of farmland in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia


Opinion

OPINION: Let’s make sustainability a fashion statement

Let your fashion choice be your expression, your voice and your vote for a sustainable future


OPINION: Carbon pricing: It pays not to pollute

Imposing a price on carbon sends a financial signal to investors that low-carbon investments are valuable today and will be even more valuable in the future



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