When it comes to cooling the planet, forests have more than one trick up their trees. Tropical forests help cool the average global...
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MADRID, Mar 24 (IPS) – Following 20 long years (2011-2021) of brutal war on Afghanistan by the US-led military coalition, which ended up in...
NEW DELHI, Mar 24 (IPS) – According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), the unemployment rate in urban India stood at 9.4 percent...
When I was hired as a summer intern at Science News in 2017, I was equal parts excited and anxious. I’d heard the job...
The first three months of covering the COVID-19 pandemic felt, by Tina Hesman Saey’s estimation, “closer to 300 years.” From February to April 2020,...
Content warning: This essay about aspects of Science News’ coverage cites specific examples of racism, sexism and prejudice against members of the LGBTQ community...
DAKAR, Senegal, Mar 24 (IPS) – At the World Water Forum this week (March 21-26), the international community will raise awareness of the 2...
In Kenya, a trailblazing sustainable agriculture project has helped hundreds of farmers move away from the harmful practice of growing tobacco, in favour of...
Women across the world face unacceptable mistreatment during childbirth, according to a new study from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Human Reproduction...