Japan’s ‘2050 Weather Forecast’ highlights extreme heat in the future
As extreme heat becomes an increasingly visible reality across Japan, meteorologists, scientists, businesses and professional footballers are joining forces to encourage stronger climate action...
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Retired in Ukraine: One Cheese, Two Chickens and a Dozen Eggs
UZHGOROD, Ukraine, August 25 (IPS) – Marina says she does not particularly like her flowers, but that, “for some reason,” people buy them. Read...
Colombia Declares State of Emergency Following Deadly Earthquake
UNITED NATIONS, August 25 (IPS) – Over the past week, the humanitarian crisis in Colombia has deteriorated significantly following the Mw 7.4–7.5 earthquake that struck...
A new cancer vaccine may keep melanoma from coming back
A personalized mRNA vaccine paired with Keytruda may help keep skin cancer from returning after surgery, a large clinical trial suggests.
Can restoring land create jobs? These young entrepreneurs are proving it
From Ecuador to Bangladesh, a new generation of entrepreneurs is turning land restoration into economic opportunity. Whether repurposing agricultural waste, building greenhouses or deploying...
How memories may survive hibernation
Hibernating mice rapidly lost and regrew half of the connections in their memory centers, while key connection hubs survived.
Less sugar early in life might decrease dementia risk
Children exposed to World War II sugar rationing had lower dementia and Alzheimer’s risk decades later, data suggest.
Gaza: Children still at risk despite drop in acute hunger
Among tent cities pitched on the rubble of destroyed homes in Gaza, children are, by one measure, finally getting enough to eat. By another,...
100 days of Ebola and the race to stop the spread
A hundred days after the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak was declared, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is facing an epidemic of an unprecedented...
South Africa’s Anti-Immigrant Violence Slows SDG Goals, Rips Apart Africans’ Free Movement Call
BLANTYRE, Malawi, August 25 (IPS) – When the Malawian government announced the conclusion of the repatriation of its citizens trapped in anti-immigrant violence against...
UN Secretary General Expresses Sadness Over Lives Lost in Nepal-Tibet Flash Floods 
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