Pro-rich Policies Buoy Billionaires Rise in India
NEW DELHI, Feb 09 (IPS) – If India ranks among the world’s fastest growing economies it is also where inequity is growing the fastest,...
Three Key Questions for Understanding Shifts in Global Poverty
LONDON, Feb 09 (IPS) – In 2010 and the following years, there was attention to the fact that much of global poverty had shifted...
Many Good Reasons to Eat More Pulses – And Perhaps Less Meat!
MADRID, Feb 09 (IPS) – Pulses and meat are both needed as part of your diet, however… While the total emissions of greenhouse gases...
From Zero Yield to Bumper Harvest
BLANTYRE, MALAWI, Feb 09 (IPS) – In the past, the people of Sande Village in Chikwawa district, Malawi, would go to bed with empty...
Weird ‘superionic’ matter could make up Earth’s inner core
A quirky material that behaves like a mishmash of liquid and solid could be hidden deep in the Earth. Computer simulations described in two...
How the Human Genome Project revolutionized understanding of our DNA
In October 1990, biologists officially embarked on one of the century’s most ambitious scientific efforts: reading the 3 billion pairs of genetic subunits —...
How one scientist aims to boost Black people’s representation in genetic datasets
Nearly two decades after researchers assembled the first genetic blueprint for human life, our understanding of our instruction manual has a dramatic and problematic...
Dissolving the Tunisian body that deals with judicial independence, known as the High Judicial Council, is a “clear violation” of the country’s obligations under...
Severe drought threatens 13 million with hunger in Horn of Africa
An estimated 13 million people are waking up severely hungry every day in the Horn of Africa, as the region grapples with a major...
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) must ensure civilian protection in the wake of recent deadly raids on camps for internally...
Women and girls pay high price in DR Congo Ebola outbreak 
Less than 4 years from development goals deadline, progress shows what’s possible 
Sexual violence against civilians and POW’s in Ukraine widespread and ‘abhorrent’ 
‘Violence will only defer a problem’: UN Assembly President on trust, AI and lessons from the Rohingya crisis