Why you should care about ‘The Insect Crisis’
The Insect CrisisOliver MilmanW.W. Norton & Co., $27.95 Imagine a world without insects. You might breathe a sigh of relief at the thought of...
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Ben Franklin had nothing on trilobites. Roughly 400 million years before the founding father invented bifocals, the now extinct trilobite Dalmanitina socialis already had...
The World Can Stop Capital Flight Now
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 26 (IPS) – Curbing capital flight from developing countries is long overdue. New sanctions against Russian oligarchs show this can...
Poor Water Distribution Infrastructure Gives Jamaica a ‘Water Scarce’ Label
Kingston, Jamaica, Apr 26 (IPS) – It will take billions of dollars and many years to fix a growing problem that has placed Jamaica...
Population and Development Commission: ‘Perfect Storm’ of crises take shape
Against the backdrop of shifting population demographics, conflicts, post-pandemic shocks and climate change, the developing world is on the brink of a “perfect storm”...
UN human rights experts urge United States to ease Afghanistan assets freeze
Alarmed by the critical humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, independent UN human rights experts called, on Monday, for the United States to end its freeze...
UN condemns ‘horrific’ surge of violence in South Sudan
Additional peacekeepers have been deployed to Leer county, South Sudan, following a surge of violence, including rapes, gang rapes, beheadings, burning civilians alive, and...
Middle East: ‘No justification’ for terrorism or violence against civilians, Security Council hears
Recent violence in the occupied West Bank and terror attacks in Israel have killed and injured scores of civilians, the UN Special Coordinator for...
‘This is the worst drought in forty years’: Millions of Ethiopians at risk from failed rains
Ethiopia’s eastern Somali Region has been hit by three consecutive below-average rainy seasons, worsening the already deteriorating humanitarian situation for around 3.5 million people,...
Extractive projects cause irreparable harm to indigenous cultures, languages, lives, speakers tell Permanent Forum
The explosive growth of extractive operations around the world often plays out on indigenous people’s lands without their consent, causing irreparable harm to their...
UN Crime Congress: Technology is transforming crime – and the response to it 
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Women and girls pay high price in DR Congo Ebola outbreak 
Less than 4 years from development goals deadline, progress shows what’s possible