UN spotlights transformational potential of family farming for world food supply
A Global Forum highlighting the UN’s Decade of Family Farming (UNDFF) got underway on Monday, aimed at identifying priority policies to boost support for...
Marking one year since Afghanistan’s de facto rulers decreed that girls should be excluded from high school, UN chief António Guterres has urged the...
Rescuing the SDGs: General Assembly highlights ‘world’s to-do list’
The UN Secretary-General and the President of the 77TH General Assembly joined world leaders and Goodwill Ambassadors on Monday in a global call to...
Education transformation needed for ‘inclusive, just and peaceful world’ – UN chief
Education has been Secretary-General António Guterres’ “guide and touchstone,” he said on Monday, the final day of the Transforming Education Summit, warning that it...
Almost one in five women will experience a mental health condition during pregnancy or in the year after the birth, the UN health agency...
Climate Change Crisis Nonacceptance
PORTLAND, USA, Sep 19 (IPS) – Many people around the world, especially those among the political far-right, do not accept the climate change crisis....
Mexico’s Electric Mobility, Stuck in Fossil Fuel Traffic
MEXICO CITY, Sep 19 (IPS) – The Mexico City government began testing an elevated route for electric buses with great fanfare on Sept. 11,...
Video shows the first fox known to fish for food
The fox froze. Inches from his paws, frenzied, spawning carp writhed in the shallow water along a reservoir’s shore. In a sudden flash of...
This environmentally friendly quantum sensor runs on sunlight
Quantum tech is going green. A new take on highly sensitive magnetic field sensors ditches the power-hungry lasers that previous devices have relied on...
Guterres: ‘Global addiction to fossil fuels’ must end and a ‘renewables revolution’ jumpstarted
Achieving a just and equitable energy transition is “one of the biggest challenges facing our world,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Global Compact Board meeting...
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