Good news on aid to Gaza, global income, Ukraine, health care
Topping the free section of Fix the News this week is a United Nations pictorial about ways it’s been ramping up aid to Gaza since the October ceasefire, such as providing food and soap. And Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen says it’s now serving one million meals daily across Gaza.
Among the items requiring a subscription:
— A new measure focusing on the average time a person needs to earn a dollar shows that global poverty has fallen by about 55 percent since 1990, VoxDev reports.
— Ukraine has responded to Russian attacks on its centralized power plants by pivoting to developing decentralized power such as wind and solar, says YaleEnvironment360.
— Researchers have developed a new technique that can quickly provide 3D color images capturing both the structure of soft tissues and details of how blood vessels are functioning, says Caltech. The method holds promise for enhanced breast tumor imaging, monitoring of nerve damage caused by diabetes, and brain imaging, among other things.
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