Pandemic Puts Jamaican Children at Heightened Risk of Abuse
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Dec 16 (IPS) – In Jamaica, school playgrounds are deserted, filled only with phantom shrieks of delight. Blackboards remain devoid of arithmetic...
SCIENTIFIC NEWS
A jumbo problem: Sri Lanka sees world’s highest elephant deaths
Author: Wed, 2020-12-16 00:52 COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has set a world record for the highest number of elephant deaths in the world after more than...
Malaysia PM holds on to power with budget win
Author: Wed, 2020-12-16 00:56 KUALA LUMPUR: Malysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin secured his position in Parliament on Tuesday after securing 111 votes for his first...
‘Among Us’ arrives on Nintendo Switch
Among gamers’ favorite group pastimes this year has been playing “Among Us,” a 2018 murder mystery game set in space.
MacKenzie Scott donates $4.2 billion to 384 organizations
MacKenzie Scott announced on Tuesday her second major charitable contribution of the year, giving away nearly $4.2 billion to 384 organizations as part of...
Fake ‘decoy’ eggs are being used to track turtle poaching
The phone buzzed as the tracker came online, and a little circular blip appeared on the map. Helen Pheasey watched the dot intently as...
Small, quiet crickets turn leaves into megaphones to blare their mating call
The rules of the tree cricket world, sexually speaking, are simple. Perched from a leaf’s edge, males call out into the night by rhythmically...
Can Conservation and Development Be Balanced in Sri Lanka?
COLOMBO, Dec 15 (IPS) – The Sri Lankan government recently cancelled three circulars that protected 700,000 hectares of forests, labelled Other State Forests (OSFs),...
India: National Education Policy 2020 Could Transform Early Childhood Education If Implemented Effectively
THANE, MAHARASHTRA, India, Dec 15 (IPS) – It is after almost 34 years that the central government approved the new National Education Policy 2020...
USA Downgraded as Civil Liberties Deteriorate Across the Americas
Few images better illustrate the recent decline in civil liberties in the United States than that of peaceful protesters near the White House being...
‘Connect the dots’ between street protests and global turmoil, urges Guterres 
DR Congo: Ebola responders under pressure as outbreak expands 
A nanoparticle revealed the tiny impact of a single gas atom 
Was van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ a flight of fancy or a real sky?