Landmark UN Report Issues Stark call for Sustainable Land Management to Save Human Health
DOMINICA, Apr 27 (IPS) – The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification’s Global Land Outlook warns that only through protection of existing ecosystems and...
Democracy Loses Its Glow for South Africans Amid Persistent Inequality
BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa, Apr 27 (IPS) – South Africans believed that the introduction of democracy in 1994 would transform their lives for the better...
An Ebola vaccination campaign has begun in northwest Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to halt the spread of a deadly new outbreak in the country,...
Digital Mentorship: The Key to Womens Labour Force Participation in India?
BENGALURU, India, Apr 27 (IPS) – Today, approximately 19 million young women are accessing post-secondary or tertiary education in India. Yet, such education has...
Boosting Food Security and Education in Schools in Brazil
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Big Business Depletes Nature, Big Business Supplants Naturewith Synthetic Food
MADRID, Apr 27 (IPS) – In case you were not aware, please know that humanity used to cultivate more than 6.000 plant species for...
50 years ago, scientists were seeking the cause of psoriasis
Cyclic AMP and psoriasis — Science News, April 29, 1972 [A team of dermatologists] discovered that cyclic AMP levels in psoriasis lesions are significantly...
Leonardo da Vinci’s rule for how trees branch was close, but wrong
Leonardo da Vinci was wrong about trees. The multitalented, Renaissance genius wrote down his “rule of trees” over 500 years ago. It described the...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Apr 27 (IPS) – Lebanon is perpetually at a crossroads, one where local, regional, and international interests seem to play against each...
Antibiotics diminish babies’ immune response to key vaccines
Taking antibiotics in the first two years of life can prevent babies from developing a robust immune response to certain vaccines. The new finding...
The Cost of Excluding Refugees 
WHO Launches New Global Health Strategy for Childhood Cancer Medications 
UN fact-finding mission on Iran focuses on plight of civilians 
Gender equality woefully off track, new UN report reveals