Anita Makri

Freelance writer, editor, producer. Professional nomad. Covering global development + science for people and society. Subscribe: worldwise.substack.com

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Looking beyond our comfort zones
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This is the twice-monthly Work with the Media edition, with opportunities to develop communication skills and journalism projects.I think of writing …
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Poverty
COVID-19 pandemic causes unprecedented poverty rise in LatAm in 2020: UN agency - Xinhua | English.news.cn
xinhuanet.com - Source: Xinhua
SANTIAGO, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Latin America reached unprecedented levels of poverty and extreme poverty in 2020 not seen in recent years due to the …
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Ronan Glynn
Irish health authorities investigating four stillbirth cases with potential COVID link
Euronews
Irish health authorities are investigating whether four cases of stillborn babies are linked to the coronavirus outbreak, the country's Deputy Chief …
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Himalayas
The Himalayan hazards nobody is monitoring
BBC News - By Navin Singh Khadka
Retreating glaciers in the Himalayas are not only dangerously filling up glacial lakes but they are also causing other hazards that are not being monitored, scientists have warned. The recent flash flood...
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Myanmar
The World Has Failed Myanmar, So Now Its Youth Are Stepping Up
TIME - By Brian Wong
With the democratization of its institutions supposedly underway, and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the helm in the form of Aung San Suu Kyi, the world for many years assumed that Myanmar was on the...
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Construction
A sand shortage? The world is running out of a crucial — but under-appreciated — commodity
CNBC - Sam Meredith
LONDON — An insatiable global appetite for sand, one of the world's most important but least appreciated commodities, is unlikely to let up anytime …
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