Yemen’s humanitarian crisis growing by the hour amid spike in displacement
People displaced by the renewed fighting in Yemen have described fleeing for their lives amid shelling and gunfire, aid agencies reported on Friday, while...
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Haiti: Child malnutrition crisis worsens amid escalating violence
Haiti is facing a worsening child malnutrition crisis, with an estimated 253,725 children aged 6 to 59 months projected to suffer from acute malnutrition...
The Connection Between Urbanization and Poverty: How Cities Can Reduce Poverty – Or Deepen It
UNITED NATIONS, September 18 (IPS) – Urbanization can help concentrate jobs, services, and investments; however, it can also concentrate unaffordable housing, insecure employment, and...
Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?
For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.
New UN system platform puts millions of data points at users’ fingertips, says Guterres
How do you make sense of a world facing interconnected crises, from poverty and hunger to climate change, if the facts are scattered across...
Outpacing Foreign Aid, Migrant Remittances Are a Lifeline Ensuring Families Are Fed and Healthy, Says IFAD
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, September 18 (IPS) – Migrants now send home more money than foreign aid, and this is pulling rural families out of poverty,...
This ‘anti-vampiric’ grave used two strategies to stop the undead
A sickle across the throat and a padlock on the toe were likely meant to keep this 17th-century Polish teen from resurrecting.
What’s behind ‘one of paleontology’s most enduring enigmas’?
New research suggests that Paleodictyon — honeycomb-shaped formations perhaps sketched by da Vinci — are not made by soft-bodied creatures.
Math puzzle: Shape-birding
Solve the math puzzle from our October 2026 issue, in which a bird watcher seeks an indoor hobby.
The Cost of Excluding Refugees
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 18 (IPS) – For the young women I met through Global Give Back Circle’s HER Lab in Kenya, displacement was not...
As Sudan war spills into Central African Republic, UN warns against early peacekeeper exit 
AI on track to ‘crowd out’ human decision-making in warfare 
From Small Islands to Antalya: COP31 Must Move Climate Promises from Paper to People 
‘One step away from famine’: Inside Afghanistan’s hunger crisis