4 takeaways from the WHO’s report on the origins of the coronavirus
A new World Health Organization report investigating the origins of the coronavirus has raised more questions than answers for how — and where —...
Erin Garcia de Jesús
Flamboyant fishes evolved an explosion of color as seas rose and fell
Fairy wrasses are swimming jewels, flitting and flouncing about coral reefs. The finger-length fishes’ brash, vibrant courtship displays are meant for mates and rivals,...
Conserving Tigers, Elephants and Bison, One LPG Stove at a Time
HYDERBAD, India, Apr 01 (IPS) – As the sun sets over the canopy of Albizia amara trees, a thin blanket of fog begins to...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 01 (IPS) – Illicit financial flows (IFFs) hurt all countries, both developed and developing. But poor countries suffer relatively...
Generation Equality: Womens Leadership as a Catalyst for Change, Say 49 UN Women Envoys
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 01 (IPS) – This article has been co-authored and signed by 49 UN women Ambassadors*March, women’s history month, closes with the...
Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine has 100 percent efficacy in young people
Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine proved highly effective in adults. Now it appears to work well in younger people too. In a Phase III...
Frog skin cells turned themselves into living machines
Using blobs of skin cells from frog embryos, scientists have grown creatures unlike anything else on Earth, a new study reports. These microscopic “living...
A meteor may have exploded over Antarctica 430,000 years ago
Seventeen tiny particles recovered from a flat-topped mountain in eastern Antarctica suggest that a space rock shattered low in the atmosphere over the ice-smothered...
These are the 5 costliest invasive species, causing billions in damages
Invasive species can wreak havoc on local ecosystems. Cleaning up that biological wreckage comes at a big price. These invaders, often thrust into new...
Stone Age culture bloomed inland, not just along Africa’s coasts
Africa’s southern Kalahari Desert is not typically regarded as a hotbed of Stone Age innovations. And yet human culture blossomed there around 105,000 years...
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