Mexico Sticks to Natural Gas, Despite Socioenvironmental Impacts
Mexico City, Dec 07 (IPS) – In his community of small farmers and ranchers in northern Mexico, Aristeo Benavides has witnessed the damage caused...
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KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Dec 08 (IPS) – Fiscal and monetary measures needed to fight the economic downturn, largely due to COVID-19 policy responses,...
A UN Power Monopoly That Cries Out for a Break
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 07 (IPS) – Will four strong contenders for permanent seats in the UN Security Council (UNSC)– Germany, India, Japan and Brazil—help...
Choice and Opportunity for African Farmers Will Transform Africa
NAIROBI, Dec 07 (IPS) – A hungry man is not a free man. He cannot focus on anything else but securing his next meal....
How Artificial Intelligence Could Widen Gap Between Rich & Poor Nations
WASHINGTON DC, Dec 08 (IPS) – New technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, robotics, big data, and networks are expected to revolutionize production...
Chain of Alaskan islands might really be one monster volcano
Six volcanic islands in the Aleutian archipelago may be linked together in one massive caldera hiding underwater.
Earth spent 500 million years creating and eating dead continents
For more than a billion years, Earth covered itself in new continents. New research shows that those continents were quickly swallowed up again but...
Nazi ‘Enigma’ machine found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea
Divers trying to remove old fishing nets from the Baltic sea have accidentally stumbled on a Nazi code-making “Enigma” machine.
China claims fastest quantum computer in the world
“Jiuzhang” would be the most powerful quantum computer in the world, capable of performing some tasks 100 trillion times faster than the world’s fastest...
Toasty November means 2020 might nudge out 2016 as hottest year on record
Last month was even hotter than previous record-breaking Novembers.
World News in Brief: Refugee funding, US migration policy triggers ‘cascade’ of rights violations, world forests report, restorative justice in Colombia 
From energy crisis to energy transition: How renewables are reshaping energy security 
Sudan tells UN: No imposed solutions to country’s conflict 
‘Ballot must replace the bullets’, South Sudan tells General Assembly ahead of elections