Psychology Headlines Around the World

Source: NPR In the last seven years, the city of Portland, Oregon, has built a community solar project to reduce emissions and lower energy bills for low-income families and has distributed more than 20,000 free air conditioners to help vulnerable households prepare for heat waves. These projects were paid through an innovative billion-dollar social and climate justice fund aimed at helping vulne…

Source: PBS News Hour Indigenous leaders say that in the Trump administration's rush to build border walls, contractors are desecrating Native American sacred places and cultural sites at an unprecedented pace, more than 170 years after the international boundary split the territories of dozens of tribes. The White House has devoted $46 billion to wall construction, which has ramped up along the …

Source: PBS News Hour The Colorado Supreme Court has ordered Colorado's largest provider of gender-affirming care for young people to resume medical treatments like puberty blockers and hormone therapy despite risking the loss of federal funding. The parents of four transgender girls sued the hospital, alleging that the hospital was violating the state's antidiscrimination law by refusing to prov…

Source: The Guardian - Climate Crisis Being a carnivore is often seen as an expression of manhood, but eating too much meat risks chronic disease. Eating meat has also been linked to certain cancers, and meat production contributes about an eighth of all human-made climate pollution. Moreover, a French study last year found a 26% emissions disparity between men and women with respect to eating an…

Source: Al Jazeera The World Health Organization is convening in Geneva, Switzerland, this week for the 79th World Health Assembly, where mental health will be discussed. More than one billion people—roughly one in eight people globally—live with a mental health condition, and that number is rising. Of those affected, young people are among the hardest hit, while men face higher rates of suicide …

Source: Al Jazeera The United Nations General Assembly voted Wednesday to support a landmark ruling from the International Court of Justice, which found that states have a legal responsibility to act to prevent the climate crisis from worsening. More than two-thirds of U.N. member states, 141, voted in favor of the measure, with 28 abstaining and 8 voting no. The nations voting against the measur…

Source: NPR Hilda Wang scolds smokers and posts videos of the encounters. In a widely shared clip, she's lecturing a man with a cigarette in hand. She tells him that he's an embarrassment, and he walks away. Wang comes into contact with a lot of smokers. She lives in China, where smoking habits differ sharply by gender. According to the latest data on China from the World Health Organization, abo…

Source: ProPublica In 2013, a U.S. federal judge ruled that Arizona police had violated the rights of Latino drivers, so the court required reforms such as documenting traffic stops to detect racial bias, employing investigators to probe reports of deputy misconduct, and appointing a monitor to oversee the settlement. A new report shows, however, that the police spent millions from the settlement…

Source: U.S. News and World Report Recent advances in artificial intelligence have made their way into the world of senior care, including AI care companions. These devices and apps, which offer companionship for older adults and the possibility of a solution to loneliness, have garnered attention as the number of programs and applications has proliferated. But what are AI care companions, and ca…

Source: The Guardian - Climate Crisis British homes will need air conditioning to survive predicted levels of global heating, the government's climate advisers have warned in a new report released on Wednesday. Air conditioning should be installed in all care homes and hospitals within the next 10 years, and in all schools within 25 years, according to the Climate Change Committee report. The gov…

Source: U.S. News and World Report As artificial intelligence casts a shadow over career prospects, it is becoming an unwelcome subject at this season's college commencements. At several campuses, graduates have booed speakers the topic turned to AI. Said one student: "We as students are discouraged from using it and penalized for using it. And then to have our speaker be the champion of AI is ju…

Source: Al Jazeera The United Nations has urged Israel to prevent "acts of genocide" in Gaza and raised concerns over "ethnic cleansing" across the Palestinian territory and occupied West Bank. A new report investigating Israeli military conduct in Gaza up until May 2025 and published by the UN Human Rights Office on Monday concluded that Israel has committed "serious violations of international …

Source: United Nations News Violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ+ people are widespread, including at school, where 45% of LGBT youth report being bullied. That's the message from UN human rights chief, Volker Türk, who on Saturday said that more than 1 in 3 countries still criminalize same-sex conduct and several maintain the death penalty for it. "When societies normalize hate and discrim…

Source: PsyPost Scrolling through endless feeds of short videos can disrupt a good night of sleep, but poor sleep might also fuel the drive to keep scrolling in a continuous loop, according to a new study. Researchers found that daytime tiredness acts as a gateway symptom, making individuals more vulnerable to losing control over their video consumption. The study was published in the journal Per…

Source: The Guardian - Climate Crisis Soccer fans are increasingly watching preparations for the 2026 World Cup through their fingers. The most popular sporting event on the planet is awash in controversy, including the tournament's staggering contribution to climate change. The 2026 World Cup is not only the most politically combustible tournament in modern history, but it is on track to be the …

Source: Google News - Health It is one of the strangest puzzles in human evolution: About 90% of people across every human culture favor their right hand—with no other primate species showing a population-level preference on this scale. Despite decades of research, the mystery of right-handedness has remained unsolved. Now, a new study suggests that the answer comes down to two features of human …

Source: NPR Rumors spread on social media over the winter: School kids with disabilities in a New York School District, including Mohawk children, were being confined by special education teachers in wooden boxes. Local school officials later confirmed that at least two boxes had been built and used by staff. Now, according to a state investigation, it appears that at least five elementary-age st…

Source: NPR U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon sparred with Democrats on the House education committee Thursday during a hearing to defend the Trump administration's new budget proposal. The lawmakers and education secretary tussled over several key issues that will affect the lives of millions of Americans, including whether new Republican caps on federal student loans will lower the cost of…

Source: DW- top stories Usually, it tends to be Muslim men who go to pray on Fridays in the mosques of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As is customary in Islam, women are not required to go to the mosque to pray on the holiest day of the week. However, more and more, devout Muslim women in the Western Balkan country want to attend the mosque, too. In particular, Bosnian Muslim feminists are part of a bro…

Source: United Press International - Health News Texas Children's Hospital plans to create the first "detransition clinic" in the U.S. as part of a settlement with the state for providing transgender care, officials announced Friday. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the settlement will also require the hospital to pay a $10 million fine and revoke medical privileges of doctors. The clinic w…