Zacharias Lewala

A resident walks along a street on the banks of the Songhua River near a highway bridge on a hazy day in Jilin, Jilin province, on February 25, 2014

The air pollution in China is being compared to nuclear winter — and one man is trying a lawsuit to change that

Global Scan

The pollution situation much of China has gotten incredibly serious — with some experts comparing it to a nuclear winter. Meanwhile the situation for gay people in Uganda is also dire, after a local tabloid printed the names of 200 “prominent homosexuals.” That and more in today’s Global Scan.

A doorway half-buried by sand in Kolmanskop, Namibia

How the sands of time have almost swallowed a German ghost town in the Namibian desert

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