International Women’s Day, 2022 – Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow
DUBLIN, Mar 07 (IPS) – Women are already leaders on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Sisters Nina and Helena Gualinga of the Kichwa...
Russia’s war in Ukraine raises nuclear risks, physicists warn
Russia’s war with Ukraine is heightening nuclear fears on two fronts. Attacks on nuclear facilities have raised concerns about accidents, and threats from Russian...
Russia reduced Genocide Convention ‘to confetti’, Ukraine tells world court
Ukraine addressed the UN’s highest court on Monday to reject as a “grotesque lie” Russia’s claims that genocide has been committed in eastern Ukrainian oblasts, or regions, before calling for emergency measures to halt Russian aggression. Read the full story, “Russia...
The Climate Change Shuffle: Deny, Delay, and Do Nothing
PORTLAND, USA, Mar 07 (IPS) – While more than a half century ago the Twist was the craze in dance halls globally, today the...
Changing a System that Exploits Nature and Women, for a Sustainable Future
LIMA, Mar 07 (IPS) – “Pachamama (Mother Earth) is upset with all the damage we are doing to her,” says Hilda Roca, an indigenous...
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Mar 07 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. Women around the...
Can 70% of the World’s Poor Celebrate International Women’s Day?
MADRID, Mar 07 (IPS) – The picture is gloomy: not only do women represent 70% of the 1.3 billion people living in conditions of...
BONN, Mar 07 (IPS) – The writer is head editor, Landscape News The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International...
Some deep-sea octopuses aren’t the long-haul moms scientists thought they were
Octopuses living in the deep sea off the coast of California are breeding far faster than expected. The animals lay their eggs near geothermal...
This newfound tarantula is the first known to make its home in bamboo
Meet “bambootula.” This newfound tarantula gets its nickname from the tall, stiff-shafted grass in which it makes a home in northern Thailand. Taksinus bambus,...
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