See the secret to DNA hookups
A record player-like microscope and computer simulations solve a longtime mystery, showing that metal ions bridge DNA strands that would normally repel.
Tina Hesman Saey
AI-Driven Climate Change Pushes Frontline Communities Further Into Environmental Degradation and Poverty
UNITED NATIONS, September 25 (IPS) – On September 21, Frontline Resource Institute (FRI) hosted its Climate Justice Hub at Fordham University at Lincoln Center...
From Commitments to Action: Centering Lived Experience in NCD Responses
UNITED NATIONS, September 25 (IPS) – On September 21, just prior to the opening of the United Nations General Assembly Debate (UNGA81), the NCD...
UNRWA work and mandate in ‘jeopardy’, Guterres warns
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) continues to operate under “extraordinary pressure”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday. Read...
Haitians can’t wait to return home and vote in elections says Prime Minister
“There is a people. A people who can wait no longer. A people waiting to regain security, to return home to work, to send...
‘Rising seas are sinking futures’
World leaders approved the UN Declaration on Sea Level Rise by consensus on Thursday as the UN chief warned that encroaching waters are already...
Israeli leader at UN: ‘We’re going to win. We have no other choice’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his address to the UN General Assembly to defend Israel’s strikes against Iran as a matter of national survival...
Venezuela seeking rebirth after political crisis and devastating earthquakes, President tells UN
Venezuela is seeking to rebuild after a period of political upheaval and the destruction caused by twin earthquakes earlier this year, Acting President Delcy...
When African Smallholders Access Finance, They’ll Show You What’s Possible
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 24 (IPS) – I was born in Rwanda, but my family soon became refugees in Uganda during the conflict and unrest...
The BBNJ Agreement: From Paper to Protection – The Real Test for Global Ocean Governance
VICTORIA, Seychelles, September 24 (IPS) – After decades in which the high seas were too often treated as a distant frontier—vast, ownerless and beyond...
Sudan conflict: Peace efforts resume to end ‘drone war’ fuelling humanitarian crisis 
UN agencies appeal for help to protect weakest from unprecedented El Niño 
Summit in Samarkand, a boon for child wellbeing and health 
Migrants paid up to $500 million in smuggling fees on European sea routes