Less Overseas Coal Is Good, But Developing Countries Still Need More Electricity
PARIS, Oct 05 (IPS) – President Xi announced last month that China is stopping its financing for new coal-fired power plants overseas. With this...
NEW YORK/GENEVA, Oct 05 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of education globally, but for children in emergencies and protracted crises,...
Work on complex systems, including Earth’s climate, wins the physics Nobel Prize
Earth’s climate is a vastly complex system on a grand scale. On a microscopic level, so is the complicated physics of atoms and molecules...
Radiometric dating puts pieces of the past in context. Here’s how
When a researcher picks up an object — whether it’s a scrap of leather from a dig site, a fossil from a museum drawer...
Making Online Health News Reliable, Accessible
New York, Oct 05 (IPS) – Telemedicine and health-related information have experienced a massive uptake since the COVID-19 pandemic began last year. While online...
LONDON, Oct 05 (IPS) – Addressing the UN General Assembly last month President Gotabaya Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka raised several concerns, two that had...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 05 (IPS) – As finance ministers and central bank governors gather next week for the IMF-World Bank annual meetings in...
COVID-19 has taken a toll on the mental health of children and young people, and impacts could be felt for many years to come,...
Multilateral Financial Institutions Can Catalyze Public Development Banks (PDB) to Deliver SDGs
NEW DELHI, India, Oct 05 (IPS) – There is broad consensus that realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate...
Haiti facing stalled elections, kidnapping surge, rampant insecurity
Haiti is currently undergoing “one of the most fraught periods of its recent history”, the head of the UN office in the country told...
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