The worldwide water-lifting power of plants is enormous
When it comes to hoisting water, plants are real power lifters. For a tall tree, slurping hundreds of liters of water each day up...
Sid Perkins
Somalia is at a “tipping point”, with hundreds of thousands of people at immediate risk of famine, the heads of the UN’s highest-level humanitarian...
Afghanistan: A Treasure Worth More than a Trillion Dollars
MADRID, Sep 06 (IPS) – Both mainstream media, international bodies and human rights defenders continue to rightly denounce the Taliban’s inhuman abuses against the...
Meet the fungal friends and foes that surround us
The Hidden Kingdom of FungiKeith SeifertGreystone Books, $27.95 Take a walk through the woods after it rains, and you can catch a glimpse of...
Indigenous Americans ruled democratically long before the U.S. did
On sunny summer days, powerboats pulling water-skiers zip across Georgia’s Lake Oconee, a reservoir located about an hour-and-a-half drive east of Atlanta. For those...
1980s Redux? New context, Old Threats
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Sep 06 (IPS) – As rich countries raise interest rates in double-edged efforts to address inflation, developing countries are struggling...
HAMILTON, Canada, Sep 06 (IPS) – Monsoon flooding has occurred often in Pakistan but never to the catastrophic extent presently happening. A distinguishing feature...
BRIGHTON, UK, Sep 06 (IPS) – The UK’s new Prime Minister (and former Foreign Secretary), Liz Truss, enters Downing Street with a full and...
Somalia receiving unprecedented levels of food aid, with ‘famine at the door’
As UN relief chief Martin Griffiths warned of an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe on Monday, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced that it is delivering...
Execution of Gaza prisoners condemned by UN rights office
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has condemned the execution of five prisoners by Hamas, the de facto authorities...
UN fact-finding mission on Iran focuses on plight of civilians 
Gender equality woefully off track, new UN report reveals 
World News in Brief: Winter aid for Gaza, West Bank; Haiti food production; migrant deaths at sea; human rights funding 
Yemen escalation displaces more than 57,000 children: UNICEF