Mexico City has closed its main trash dump, redirecting the refuse to various recycling and composting plants. [BBC]
The UN warns that WTO policies put the world’s poorest countries at risk of food insecurity instead of making them more self-sufficient. [UN News Centre]
A major Antarctic glacier is scheduled to lose 300-square-miles of mass in the coming months. [Christian Science Monitor]
Several thousand women march in Egypt in what is said to be the largest demonstration for women’s rights in the country’s history. [New York Times]
Chinese activist Chen Wei was sentenced to nine years in jail as China continues a year of harsh punishments for those seen as threats to its authority. [The Guardian]
