Indigenous Peoples Call for Meaningful Influence in Climate Discussions — Nia Tero
UNITED NATIONS, August 18 (IPS) – Indigenous communities have long advocated for the environment through the lens of their traditional knowledge systems and cultures....
What Spider-Man gets right — and wrong — about turning off superpowers
In ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ Peter Parker devises a superpower inhibitor based on a real therapy using RNA.
Yemen: Türk alarmed by rising civilian toll, urges restraint
Escalating conflict in Yemen is killing and injuring a growing number of civilians, the UN human rights chief warned on Monday, as Houthi rebels...
Ebola outbreak becomes deadliest in DR Congo’s history
The Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is now the deadliest the country has ever faced, the UN’s World...
Qusra siege eases as UN reaches trapped families, but crisis deepens in Gaza
Humanitarian workers have reached Palestinian families who had been trapped for days by Israeli settlers in Qusra village in the northern West Bank, the...
Protecting our ‘most vital infrastructure’: Pushing back on desertification
As heatwaves are turning deadlier, fires and disasters are razing cities, and rising seas are erasing territories. One environmental crisis remains dangerously overlooked: the...
Impending UNIFIL Exit Pushes Lebanon Toward Uncertainty
UNITED NATIONS, August 18 (IPS) – Since the collapse of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon announced in June, the humanitarian situation in Lebanon...
Snail slime does many jobs thanks to calcium
Snails have five distinct types of mucus, each with its own job. The mollusks tweak calcium secretions to get the chemical mixture just right.
How Global Aid Cuts are Undermining Women-Led Humanitarian Response in Sudan
UNITED NATIONS, August 17 (IPS) – Women-led and women’s rights organizations (WLOs) in humanitarian settings are collapsing amidst a complicated predicament in which needs...
As Mongolia Hosts COP17, Pastoralists Demand Space to Move, Survive and Restore
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, August 17 (IPS) – After moving more than 6,000 km across Eurasia, the Silk Road Caravan has reached Mongolia with...
‘Don’t give up’: Syrian women’s ongoing search for the missing 
Repression of political opposition surges in post-election Zambia 
World News in Brief: US-Iran war intensifies, aid for Myanmar, casualties in Ukraine 
Africa Has the Answers to Its Food Security Challenges. What It Needs Is the Architecture to Act on Them