Will The Lettuce Outlast All This?
MADRID, Oct 27 (IPS) – No. No lettuce, no matter how British it may be, could outlast such a steady depletion of the very...
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Countries’ climate promises still not enough to avoid catastrophic global warming: UN Report
While plans submitted by most signatories of the Paris Agreement would reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, they are still not ambitious enough to limit...
Climate change: CO2 and methane in our atmosphere reach record levels
Atmospheric levels of the three main greenhouse gases warming our planet – carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide- all reached new record highs in...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Wednesday called for a moratorium on the forced returns of refugees and migrants to...
If you had to name some of the planet’s most life-threatening fungal diseases, would you know where to begin? Read the full story, “19...
Security Council counter-terrorism body to review growing threat posed by new technologies
The United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee holds a special meeting in Mumbai and New Delhi beginning on Friday, focused on the growing threat...
War, Greed and Mass Manipulation
STOCKHOLM, Oct 26 (IPS) – In his treatise On War, the Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831) stated that war is “merely a continuation...
How China Can Retire Coal Early in Pakistan and Elsewhere Through the BRI
PARIS, Oct 26 (IPS) – With COP 27 approaching, pressure is mounting on wealthy countries to increase their support to poorer ones in the...
Swat Women Wont Be ‘Duped’ by Militants This Time
Karachi, Oct 26 (IPS) – The rise in militancy in Swat still haunts many locals with flashbacks of what they went through 15 years...
NEW YORK, Oct 26 (IPS) – Held in-person for the first time in three years, the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now