Maldives General Assembly Presidency Renews Hope for Small Island Developing States
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Jun 23 (IPS) – Earlier this month, Abdulla Shahid, the Maldives’ foreign minister, was elected President of the 76th Session of...
With school closures triggered by COVID-19 disrupting both education and access to nutritious meals, two UN agencies on Tuesday launched new measures to help...
With all the major indicators for Afghanistan’s security and development looking “negative or stagnant” as international troops withdraw, the threats that lie ahead cannot be overstated, the top UN official...
A United Nations body is recommending that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef be included on a list of world heritage in danger, according to a...
Digital Media on the Frontline: Supporting the Ones who Support the Rest
NEW YORK, Jun 22 (IPS) – For Dr Farzana Khan, a frontline worker and a second-generation immigrant from Pakistan living in California, social media...
‘Fathom’ seeks to unravel humpback whales’ soulful songs
In an opening scene of the new film Fathom, Michelle Fournet sits at her computer in the dark, headphones on. The marine ecologist at...
Cosmic filaments may be the biggest spinning objects in space
Moons do it, stars do it, even whole galaxies do it. Now, two teams of scientists say cosmic filaments do it, too. These tendrils...
Famine is already present in four countries but millions more people are at risk, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday, underscoring the...
‘Invisible’ stateless people could miss out on COVID-19 jabs, UNHCR warns
Millions of stateless people around the world could miss out on COVID-19 vaccinations because they lack identity papers and are essentially “invisible to the...
Mathematician J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. was a Manhattan Project standout despite racism
The Manhattan Project brought together the finest scientific minds in the United States for one urgent purpose: to build an atomic bomb. That included...
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