UNGA81: UN Leaders Calls for Faster Action on Pandemic Preparedness
UNITED NATIONS, September 30 (IPS) – The United Nations High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPPR) on September 25 called for faster...
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New Ocean Report Warns of Rising Seas, Ocean Heat and Acidification
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, September 30 (IPS) – Fatuma Makame learned to farm seaweed in the shallow water where her parents worked. These days,...
A Stronger Future for Coffee Starts Where It Is Grown
ROME, September 30 (IPS) – Imagine your morning coffee. You smell the aroma as steam rises from the cup. It wisps and swirls, thins,...
What Faith Can Teach Agriculture
NEW YORK, September 30 (IPS) – Years ago, standing in a small farmer’s field in Haiti, I began to suspect that we had agriculture...
World News in Brief: Deadly Myanmar strikes as Malaysia begins deportations, new emergency funding released, Gaza and West Bank update
The UN chief on Tuesday strongly condemned an airstrike that reportedly killed at least 50 people at a market in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and...
BRICS: Growing Ambition, Zero Accountability
BRUSSELS, Belgium / MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, September 30 (IPS) – At the 18th BRICS Summit, held on 12 and 13 September in New Delhi, India’s...
Clean your plate – to reduce food loss and waste
Food waste is helping to fuel global warming, one half-eaten sandwich at a time. Read the full story, “Clean your plate – to reduce...
Funding cuts put 8.3 million refugees at risk of losing vital assistance
Haji Mohammad Shafi spent 44 years in Pakistan before he was forced to leave. He sold everything he owned and returned to Afghanistan with...
DRC: Early access to care and oxygen decisive for Ebola patients’ survival – WHO
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), health workers fighting the country’s largest-ever Ebola outbreak are struggling to overcome critical challenges to patient...
Yemen escalation fuels fears of further cholera, measles spread
Heavy fighting in Yemen is fuelling concerns of an uptick in cholera, measles and other preventable diseases, as overcrowding at displacement sites threatens to...
Exhaling may speed up reaction times