The Cool Down

Farmers make stunning discovery after adding new tech to traditional methods: 'It works even better now'

In Ethiopia's Western Highlands, the Agaw people are using solar technology to sustainably cultivate their ancestral farmland.

Starvation as a weapon of war: how Ethiopia created a famine in Tigray

Famine in Tigray was not an outcome of war. It was the result of policies – a siege, economic blockade and obstruction of aid ...
AllAfrica

Ethiopia: Stolen Childhoods - Reversing Rise of Child and Forced Marriage in Post-War Tigray

Opinion - Child and forced marriage in Ethiopia's Tigray region remains one of the most pressing yet under-recognized gendered consequences of the recent war. The 2020-2022 war abruptly reversed ...
BMJ Open

Family caregiver burden and associated factors among caregivers of people with mental illness attending outpatient treatment in public hospital in Eastern Ethiopia, Ethiopia ...

Objective To assess family caregiver burden and associated factors among caregivers of people with mental illness in Eastern Ethiopia. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Three hospitals in Eastern ...
The Lancet

Women's retrospective reports of childhood sexual abuse in cross-sectional household surveys: a multi-country secondary analysis of two data collection methods

aInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA bDepartment of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AppLovin Probed by SEC Over Its Data-Collection Practices

The Securities and Exchange Commission has been probing the data-collection practices of the mobile advertising tech company AppLovin Corp., according to people familiar with the matter. The company’s ...
Wired

The EPA Is Ending Greenhouse Gas Data Collection. Who Will Step Up to Fill the Gap?

The Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier this month that it would stop making polluting companies report their greenhouse gas emissions to it, eliminating a crucial tool the US uses to ...
Bleeping Computer

Sendit sued by the FTC for illegal collection of children data

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing Sendit's operating company and its CEO for unlawful collection of data from underage users, as well as deceptive subscription practices. The FTC referred a ...
CNN

Dept. of Labor launches investigation into data collection process at BLS

The Department of Labor is initiating an investigation into how the Bureau of Labor Statistics collects and reports “closely watched economic data,” according to a letter the department’s Assistant ...
The New York Times

Cuts to Data Collection May Erode Reliability of Economic Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing or ending the collection of data that is used to calculate the Consumer Price Index. By Ben Casselman Federal Reserve policymakers have stressed that their ...
JournalofAccountancy

Automatic accounting method changes list updated by IRS

In Rev. Proc. 2025-23, the IRS on Monday provided a comprehensive, updated list of changes in tax accounting methods to which the automatic change procedures in Rev. Proc. 2015-13, as subsequently ...