Stagflation Threat: Be Pragmatic, Not Dogmatic
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 22 (IPS) – “If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”. Still haunted by...
Eradicating Polio Would Eradicate So Much Tragedy
BRAZZAVILLE, Mar 22 (IPS) – Dr Matshidiso Moeti is the World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa.In the outskirts of Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, just...
Groundwater at the Heart of the Water Security Equation
PRETORIA, South Africa, Mar 22 (IPS) – Eng. James Sauramba is Executive Director of the SADC Groundwater Management Institute. Groundwater is invisible and yet its...
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Mar 22 (IPS) – In an opinion piece published in PassBlue on 15 March 2022, historian Stephen Schlesinger asked, “Where is the...
Zimbabwe Crackdown on NGOs Could Impact Election Observation
Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Mar 22 (IPS) – Zimbabwe is pressing ahead with a controversial bill that critics say seeks to criminalise the operations of nongovernmental...
Water & Sanitation Crisis Escalates as Yemenis Mark World Water Day
IBB Governorate, Yemen, Mar 22 (IPS) – As Yemen enters its 8th year of an escalating conflict, 21.7 million of my fellow Yemenis are...
How gene therapy overcame high-profile failures
Gene therapy pioneer Richard Jude Samulski remembers when he avoided the words “gene therapy.” In the mid-2000s, he told people he worked on “biological...
How the way we’re taught to round numbers in school falls short
Imagine needing to estimate the total cost of the items in your grocery basket to decide whether to put something back. So you round...
The universe’s background starlight is twice as bright as expected
Even when you remove the bright stars, the glowing dust and other nearby points of light from the inky, dark sky, a background glow...
New UN report looks underfoot, to solve global water crises
While groundwater accounts for 99 per cent of all running freshwater on Earth, it is often undervalued, mismanaged, and overexploited, according to a report...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now