By Deliberately Ignoring Risk, the World Is Bankrolling Its Own Destruction
MADRID, May 20 (IPS) – It is often said that a pessimistic person is an optimistic but well-informed person. Here, a good number of...
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What India Needs To Do To Achieve Net-Zero Status by 2070
NEW DELHI, May 20 (IPS) – The recent IPCC report that came out in the month of March 2022 says that, by the end...
First Person: Sweet taste of modern beekeeping
Beekeepers in the southern Haitian commune of Bonbon are creating a buzz around honey in an area which is recovering from an earthquake in...
Youth Demand a Voice in Call-To-Action on Child Labour
Durban, May 20 (IPS) – Ashley has vast work experience. She has laboured by the sweat of her brow in the blistering sun on...
Food insecurity threatens societies, exacerbates conflicts and ‘no country is immune’
“When war is waged, people go hungry,” Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday during a debate on conflict and food security...
Caring for Water Where Mining Leads to Wealth and Tragedies in Brazil
BELO HORIZONTE/ITABIRITO, Brazil, May 19 (IPS) – The southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais owes its name to the main economic activity throughout its...
Technology for Tracing the Work of Child Labour Could Help End the Practice
DURBAN, May 18 (IPS) – Technology used to trace the origin and price of consumer goods to ensure farmers earn fair profits could easily...
Former Child Labourer, now Lawyer, Passes on the Light of Freedom to Others
Durban, May 19 (IPS) – Amar Lai’s first memories are working alongside his parents and siblings in a quarry, breaking rocks. He was aged...
More than 59 million internally displaced in 2021
A record 59.1 million people were displaced within their homelands last year, or four million more than in 2020, the International Organization for Migration...
Countries review progress on global migration compact
Although many migrants worked on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, risking their own lives to save others, they were at times denied access...
Monkeys hunt small animals when fruit is scarce 
Beyond the Horizon: Raising a Generation to Protect the Blue Pacific 
Once upon a time, insects had 24 legs 
Microbes might get freeze-dried on the moon’s south pole