Crowdsourced cell phone data could keep bridges safe and strong
Your cell phone could reveal the health status of bridges just by being in your pocket as you go about your daily travels. Accelerometers...
Counting the Massive Financial Costs of Illegal Fishing
Nov 02 (IPS) – As a new report lays bare the massive financial costs to developing states of illegal fishing, campaigners are hoping that...
Anti-Microbial Resistance Strategies Need Urgent Attention to Prevent Unnecessary Deaths in Africa
ACCRA, Nov 03 (IPS) – African countries must find a way of fighting Anti-Microbial Resistance in the healthcare system to avoid unnecessary deaths. Read...
Campaign for a Fossil Fuels Non-proliferation Treaty Gathers Steam
ROME, Nov 03 (IPS) – When it comes to moral endorsements, having the Vatican’s backing takes some beating. So the international campaign for a legally...
More funding needed for climate adaptation, as risks mount
Countries must urgently ramp up action to adapt to the current and future impacts of climate change, as efforts now are too little and...
NEW YORK, Nov 03 (IPS) – On November 1, a statement of solidarity with Russians opposed to the Ukraine War was published. It was...
Marsquakes hint that the planet might be volcanically active after all
Mars might be, geologically speaking, not quite dead. Researchers have analyzed a slew of recent temblors on the Red Planet and shown that these...
Where are the long COVID clinics?
For the millions of people in the United States with long COVID, getting help comes down to where they live. Long COVID clinics have...
Presidents of the UAE and the US meet virtually to discuss a joint initiative to accelerate the energy transition
The President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and the President of the United States (US), Joe Biden,...
Despite severe constraints on access, UN and other humanitarian workers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have begun helping thousands displaced by...
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