Ending the “war on nature” must be part of global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday in his...
Confirmation that Europe has just had its chilliest Spring in years is cold comfort for the planet, amid rising greenhouse gas levels which will...
Auroras form when electrons from space ride waves in Earth’s magnetic field
By re-creating the conditions for an aurora in the lab, researchers have confirmed how these bright, shimmery curtains of light form. The northern lights...
50 years ago, NASA relaxed quarantine rules for returning moon missions
Lunar quarantine dropped — Science News, May 8, 1971 Spacecraft and men from Earth can contaminate space … with Earth-related material or organisms. But there...
PARIS, Jun 08 (IPS) – Increasingly, youth are rising up to declare that they’ve had enough of the cyclical exploitation of the environment that...
VIENNA/LONDON, Jun 08 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact on women and girls, and the fallout has shown how deeply...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 08 (IPS) – With the pandemic setting back past, modest and uneven progress, huge disparities in containing COVID-19 and...
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners are working to restore water supply to roughly 200,000 people, including some 100,000 children, affected by the...
Attacks by armed groups including Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province pose grave threats to Central Africa’s fragile stability, the Secretary-General’s Special...
Global push needed to ensure ‘clean, affordable and sustainable electricity’ for all
During the last decade, more people around the world have gained access to electricity than ever before. However, the number still not connected has...
Why the UN General Assembly still matters 
UN Crime Congress: Technology is transforming crime – and the response to it 
Surviving the summer 
Women and girls pay high price in DR Congo Ebola outbreak