Indigenous Peoples Want to Move Towards Clean Energy Sovereignty
GLASGOW, Nov 09 (IPS) – In the community of Bella Bella on Turtle Island in the western Canadian province of British Columbia, the indigenous...
Radical Relook at Drug Policies Puts Human Rights into Equation
BRATISLAVA, Nov 09 (IPS) – A “radically innovative” new analysis of global drug policies has laid bare the full impact repressive drug laws and...
West of The Nile and Around The Sudd
THE HAGUE, The Netherlands, Nov 09 (IPS) – Tensions and hostilities persisted until early 2019, when the regime of Omar al-Bashir – to a...
‘The Dawn of Everything’ rewrites 40,000 years of human history
The Dawn of EverythingDavid Graeber and David WengrowFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 Concerns abound about what’s gone wrong in modern societies. Many scholars explain...
Some songbirds now migrate east to west. Climate change may play a role
As the chill of autumn encroaches on Siberia’s grasslands, Richard’s pipits usually begin their southward trek to warmer latitudes. But a growing number of...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 09 (IPS) – Addressing global warming requires cutting carbon emissions by almost half by 2030! For the Intergovernmental Panel...
Food processing, packaging, transport, household consumption and waste disposal are pushing the food supply chain to the top of the greenhouse gas emitters list,...
With significant travel restrictions and large portions of personnel working from home in 2020, the UN system generated approximately 25 per cent fewer greenhouse emissions...
A group of UN human rights experts appealed on Monday for Singapore to halt the execution of a Malaysian man who has intellectual disabilities. Read the full story, “Rights...
A matter of life or death: At COP26, vulnerable countries tell developed nations it’s time to keep their promise on climate finance
Massive floods, devastating wildfires, and rising seas – along with the countless lives they take and livelihoods they upend – are realities many nations...
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