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How We Birth Babies Makes It Hard to Breastfeed Breastfeeding may seem natural. Yet many women find it hard to get off to a good start with breastfeeding.  Sharp decreases in breastfeeding rates around the world reflect this continuing challenge. While most women still choose to breastfeed, many ultimately feel they have no other choice than to stop breastfeeding earlier than anticipated. In the UK, 80 percent of mothers surveyed said they stopped breastfeeding before they wanted to. Many wome...

Breastfeeding may seem natural. Yet many women find it hard to get off to a good start with breastfeeding.  Sharp decreases in breastfeeding rates around the world reflect this continuing challenge. While most women still choose to breastfeed, many ultimately feel they have no other choice than to stop breastfeeding earlier than anticipated. In the UK, 80 percent of mothers surveyed said they stopped breastfeeding before they wanted to. Many women describe shattered expectations, feelings of d...

SIXTH TONE SIXTH TONE Chinese Conservationists Call for Release of Wild Siberian Tiger The predator had entered a village in northeastern China and injured a woman before being captured. A wild Siberian tiger that frightened locals in the northeastern Heilongjiang province last week has been captured, but conservationists say the big cat should be released as soon as possible. Song Dazhao, a conservationist and the founder of Chinese Felid Conservation Alliance, told Sixth Tone that long-term c...

This article originally appeared on Circle of Blue and is the second in a series on the global status of universal access to water, sanitation, and hygiene, produced through a collaboration between Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center. People devoted to financing water, sanitation and hygiene in developing nations worried for much of 2020. Utility customers stopped paying their water bills. Funders altered their priorities. Heads of state turned their attention to other virus-related emergenc...

Innovation in Financing Brightens WASH Galaxy: Funding for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Starts to Arrive Faster, With Clearer Requirements This article originally appeared on Circle of Blue and is the second in a series on the global status of universal access to water, sanitation, and hygiene, produced through a collaboration between Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center. People devoted to financing water, sanitation and hygiene in developing nations worried for much of 2020. Utility custome...

Building Resilience in the Sahel in an Era of Forced Displacement “The impacts of displacement present major challenges at every level of decision-making, but the opportunities for interventions that build resilience to climate change, foster social cohesion, and address gender and other disparities—well they’re also very real as well,” said Ambassador Mark Green, President, Director, and CEO of the Wilson Center, during his opening remarks at a recent event hosted by the Wilson Center ...

SIXTH TONE SIXTH TONE With COVID-19 Alarms Off, China Eyes Huge Labor Day Travel Rush Some 200 million trips are planned during the five-day holiday, potentially surpassing the same period in pre-pandemic 2019. Zhou Chengjie hasn’t traveled outside her hometown of Shanghai since January 2020, when China’s focus was turning entirely to COVID-19. But she is determined to travel during the upcoming five-day Labor Day holiday, even if it means a pinch to her purse. “It didn’t occur to me th...

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 E-Mail IMAGE: Researchers model the spread of infection over a transmission network where contacts are divided into those occurring within a household (solid gray lines) vs. outside the house ( "external contacts ", dotted... view more  Credit: Nature Communications PHILADELPHIA - Renter protection policies that have curbed mass evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic have played a key role in preventing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in U.S. cities, according to a new study published in N...

In 2020, the world experienced the convergence of the global water and climate change crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, and economic recession. The compounded emergencies hit even well-prepared countries hard. For the more than 50 percent of the world’s population that relies on transboundary freshwater sources for their drinking water, the renewed urgency for access to water for sanitation raised additional challenges. Effectively responding to the crises demanded an elevated degree of communic...