LONDON, May 31 (IPS) – At this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos which ended last week, the attention of the world’s financial...
Sanctions Now Weapons of Mass Starvation
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, May 31 (IPS) – US and allied economic sanctions against Russia for its illegal invasion of Ukraine have not achieved...
Video games for climate action: winning solutions for the planet
From climate and environment themed videogames to special features, pop-ups, and real-life tree-planting opportunities embedded within beloved classics like PAC-MAN or Angry Birds, the...
An ‘acoustic camera’ shows joining the right boy band boosts a frog’s sex appeal
Loud sounds matter in both car design and frog flirting. So New Hampshire biologists lugged an acoustic camera used by car designers to springtime...
Scientists hope to mimic the most extreme hurricane conditions
Winds howl at over 300 kilometers per hour, battering at a two-story wooden house and ripping its roof from its walls. Then comes the...
Make tobacco industry accountable for environmental damage: UN health agency
The tobacco industry damages both the environment and human health, and needs to be more accountable for the destruction it causes, declared the World...
Xenophobia-hit Zimbabweans Saving Countrys Dead Economy
Harare, May 31 (IPS) – Two decades ago, Trynos Mahamba left Zimbabwe for the United Kingdom, but back home, he has changed the lives...
How the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Impacts Africa
LUANDA, Angola, May 31 (IPS) – While Africa is yet to fully recover from the socio-economic repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict...
A young Cambodian woman says it is her dream to help remove all land mines from the south of Lebanon and improve living conditions...
Do more for environment or risk planet becoming ‘human sacrifice zone’: UN experts
It’s been five decades since Sweden hosted the world’s first conference to make the environment a major issue, in recognition of the “human sacrifice...
Women and girls pay high price in DR Congo Ebola outbreak 
Less than 4 years from development goals deadline, progress shows what’s possible 
Sexual violence against civilians and POW’s in Ukraine widespread and ‘abhorrent’ 
‘Violence will only defer a problem’: UN Assembly President on trust, AI and lessons from the Rohingya crisis