DUBLIN, Mar 07 (IPS) – Women are already leaders on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Sisters Nina and Helena Gualinga of the Kichwa...
Russia’s war with Ukraine is heightening nuclear fears on two fronts. Attacks on nuclear facilities have raised concerns about accidents, and threats from Russian...
Ukraine addressed the UN’s highest court on Monday to reject as a “grotesque lie” Russia’s claims that genocide has been committed in eastern Ukrainian oblasts, or regions, before calling for emergency measures to halt Russian aggression. Read the full story, “Russia...
PORTLAND, USA, Mar 07 (IPS) – While more than a half century ago the Twist was the craze in dance halls globally, today the...
LIMA, Mar 07 (IPS) – “Pachamama (Mother Earth) is upset with all the damage we are doing to her,” says Hilda Roca, an indigenous...
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Mar 07 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. Women around the...
MADRID, Mar 07 (IPS) – The picture is gloomy: not only do women represent 70% of the 1.3 billion people living in conditions of...
BONN, Mar 07 (IPS) – The writer is head editor, Landscape News The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International...
Octopuses living in the deep sea off the coast of California are breeding far faster than expected. The animals lay their eggs near geothermal...
Meet “bambootula.” This newfound tarantula gets its nickname from the tall, stiff-shafted grass in which it makes a home in northern Thailand. Taksinus bambus,...