When the rains fail: Preparing for drought in Central America
Across Central America’s so-called Dry Corridor, farming families live at the mercy of the rains. In southwestern Honduras, Anastacio Martínez Gómez has spent most...
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‘Here, you can eat until you’re full’: Oleshky evacuees savour first proper meals in years
In a quiet hospital corridor in Kyiv, staff and volunteers push carts carrying steaming pots of chicken soup, bread and buckwheat porridge to patients...
COP31: National Oil Companies Must Lead Global Shift Away from Fossil Fuels, Says NRGI Expert
ANTALYA, Türkiye, November 14 (IPS) – The shift away from fossil fuels is made more difficult by the powerful, often overlooked role of national...
COP31: Climate finance falls short as calls grow for polluters to pay
From emotional appeals for climate justice to high-stakes negotiations over billions of dollars, finance dominated discussions at COP31 on Friday. UN Secretary-General António Guterres...
Security Council LIVE: Fragile Gulf calm tested as threats to Hormuz shipping mount
Nearly nine months after Israeli and US strikes on Iran set off a regional war, the Gulf remains on a knife edge. Iran has...
DR Congo Ebola outbreak: Unrest fuelled by armed groups holds back response
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to spread amid repeated and ongoing deadly attacks on civilians and frontline...
COP31: New initiative targets AI and reliable climate change information
New guidance has been issued to ensure that people everywhere can obtain credible climate change information from artificial intelligence (AI) and understand how the...
‘Lives are at stake’: Humanitarians call for swift entry of winter supplies in Gaza
Winter supplies must enter the Gaza Strip where “lives are at stake”, the UN and partners said in an urgent appeal on Friday, in...
In National Geographic’s “Expedition: Saving Our Seas,” it’s all hands on deck
The documentary offers a window into scientists’ wonder and joy in their work as they discover new life forms in the depths of the...
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: ‘A New World Order Is Going to Emerge, Whether We like It or Not’
CIVICUS discusses the case for United Nations (UN) reform with Heba Aly, director of the Article 109 Coalition, an international civil society network that...
When the rains fail: Preparing for drought in Central America 
‘Here, you can eat until you’re full’: Oleshky evacuees savour first proper meals in years 
COP31: National Oil Companies Must Lead Global Shift Away from Fossil Fuels, Says NRGI Expert 
COP31: Climate finance falls short as calls grow for polluters to pay