Central Park adapts to climate change while helping New York stay cool
In the heart of Manhattan in New York City, the effects of climate change are becoming increasingly visible. Read the full story, “Central Park...
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UN aims to raise nearly $50 million for Nepal flood response
The UN and its humanitarian partners launched a $49.6 million flash appeal on Friday to deliver emergency assistance to more than 84,000 people affected...
West Bank: UN rights report warns of forcible displacement from three refugee camps
Israeli security forces forcibly displaced the entire population of three Palestine refugee camps in the occupied West Bank in January and February last year...
UN tells the world: Stop making Africa look small
The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to encourage governments, schools and tech companies worldwide to stop using maps that make Africa look far...
Repeated attacks on humanitarian warehouses put vital medical aid at risk in Ukraine: WHO
A new airstrike overnight damaged one of the main warehouses used by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Ukraine to store humanitarian medical supplies...
UN Declares International Day to Eliminate Child Marriage
UNITED NATIONS, September 4 (IPS) – As the 18th session of the UN General Assembly draws to a close, one of the final items...
Nepalese Experts, Victims Contemplate the Future After the Flood
KATHMANDU, September 4 (IPS) – That day, Subash Tamang was mining sand along the banks of the Trishuli River near the Trishuli Hydropower Project,...
WHO Announces New Ebola Vaccine Guidelines for the DRC
UNITED NATIONS, September 4 (IPS) – While Uganda announced the end of its Ebola outbreak last week, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues...
Africa’s Rangelands Are the Frontline of Resilience – COP17 Showed Why
NAIROBI, Kenya, September 4 (IPS) – Across the Kenya-Tanzania rangelands, communities have long understood a reality that the global community is increasingly recognising: healthy...
Gloria Steinem: A voice for women, to the very end
Gloria Steinem, the journalist and women’s rights campaigner who became one of the most influential voices of the feminist movement, has died at the...
COP17: The world has a plan to save nature. Is it working? 
Flour sacks turned flood barriers: Gaza faces another winter without safe shelter 
WHO scales up Ebola readiness in 22 countries across three continents 
Ukraine: Civilian casualty rates among ‘deadliest’ in years, as energy attacks intensify