Desmond Tutu wanted to be remembered only as one who ‘loved, laughed, cried, was forgiven and forgave’
Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. South Africans, world leaders and people around the globe mourned the death of the man viewed as the country’s moral conscience. Tutu worked...
Food, sleep and health: The future belongs to those who wake up early for they’ll eat and sleep healthily
The future, my mom used to say, belongs to those who wake up early. L’avenir appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt. She’d say this as we drove to early ice-skating practices on those cold winter mornings growing up in Quebec. As it turns out, science may be proving her...
Turkish government fiddling with Euphrates River water regime creates political crisis in Syria, Iraq
In addition to farming, Amer Meslet works as a brickmaker, which brings in 100,000 Syrian pounds a month (around $30). Without any harvest, that is all of his income, and Meslet says he now spends half of this on water, either for his family’s needs or to feed his animals....
How interplay of climate change, conflicts drive water and health crises in Syria and neighbouring countries
The huge silos at the roundabout as you enter Syria’s Hassakeh city are decorated with giant pictures of Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the Turkey-based separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), as well as flags from the military arm of the local Kurdish-led administration. There is still some corn in the silos,...
