Colombia's Earthquake Recovery Becomes a Child-Recruitment Warning
MSM covers earthquake recovery as a rebuilding story; the UN says empty schools in conflict zones are creating recruitment openings armed groups already know how to use.
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Scientists Explain What Actually Broke Loose Above the Nepal-Tibet Border
Daily wires keep calling it a flood; USGS and independent glaciologists say a mountain gave way, and they still can't say how often this will happen again.
A Record Super El Nino Is Already Reshaping Hurricane Season
Local storm coverage treats Dolly's collapse and Caribbean drought relief as separate stories, but NOAA says a single mechanism, a historic El Nino, is driving both.
Nearly a Third of Young US Women Have Never Been Screened for Cervical Cancer
CIDRAP covers this as a screening-behavior story; clinicians on X flag the cost — cervical cancer is being diagnosed later after a third of women in their 20s skipped screening.
A Failed Tropical Storm Becomes the Best Rain the Caribbean Has Seen
Weather.com leads with Dolly's collapse under wind shear; buried in the same forecast is drought relief for Puerto Rico that matters more to residents than the storm's name.
Freshwater Swimming Raises the Risk of Stomach Illness and Skin Rashes
CIDRAP frames this as a summer safety brief; the finding that skin-rash risk holds even in clean-testing water means routine E. coli monitoring alone will not catch it.