COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 19 (IPS) – The writer is a social and medical anthropologist.We went to the Kanatte cemetery, Sri Lanka’s largest, where...
European fire ant chemicals may send spiders scurrying away
To make a spider flee, bring on the fire ants. Or rather, just their chemical signals. Some spiders common in North American homes avoid...
Despite a deteriorating security situation and the reverberating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, regional troops deployed to combat terrorists in Africa’s Sahel region have scaled up the tempo...
Jamaica Failing to Cope with Plastic Waste
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan 20 2021 (IPS) – For decades, every time it rains heavily in Jamaica, a daunting deluge of plastic bottles and bags,...
Under the leadership of the Government of Bangladesh, the Organization for Migration (IOM) and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched a $943 million plan on...
The international community must do “all it can” to de-escalate the violence in Gaza and Israel which has left hundreds dead and injured, said the UN’s...
UN development system responds with ‘solid score’ in face of COVID-19 test
As the world continues to tackle the multiple impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, from pushing some 131 million people into extreme poverty to reversing years of...
HAMILTON, Canada, May 18 (IPS) – The year 2020 will forever be notorious for the COVID-19 pandemic but it might also be known by...
Large Corporations Cash in on COVID-19 Relief Funds
BRATISLAVA, May 18 (IPS) – Poverty and income inequality are being deepened as COVID-19 relief funds are handed out to large corporations instead of...
Climate change disinformation is evolving. So are efforts to fight back
Over the last four decades, a highly organized, well-funded campaign powered by the fossil fuel industry has sought to discredit the science that links...
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