On Wednesday, the first day of the Women’s Euro 2022 football tournament, the United Nations launched Football For The Goals (FFTG), an initiative aimed...
Recovering Edible Food from Waste Provides Environmental and Social Solutions in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, Jul 06 (IPS) – For 30 years, Tomasa Chávez visited the Central Market of Buenos Aires and rummaged through the tons of...
YAOUNDÉ, Jul 06 (IPS) – A few years ago, I found myself in the Baka indigenous sacred forest in Assok, in Cameroon in the...
How to build better ice towers for drinking water and irrigation
There’s a better way to build a glacier. During winter in India’s mountainous Ladakh region, some farmers use pipes and sprinklers to construct building-sized...
Ed Yong’s ‘An Immense World’ reveals how animals perceive the world
An Immense WorldEd YongRandom House, $30 Emerald jewel wasps know what cockroach brains feel like. This comes in handy when a female wasp needs...
The idea that many people grow following trauma may be a myth
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The Rape of the Indian Ocean; The Story of the Yellow Fin Tuna
ROME / LONDON, Jul 05 (IPS) – Over the last past several decades marine fish stocks worldwide have been under intense threat. There have...
The Camel, the Needle — and the UN’s first Woman Secretary-General
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LONDON, Jul 06 (IPS) – When Ceylon- now Sri Lanka- gained independence from Britain in 1948 after almost 450 years of colonial rule under...
UN needs $68.4 million to help Central African Republic where 2.2 million are acutely food insecure
A sharp increase in prices of essential goods in the Central African Republic (CAR) linked to war in Ukraine, will likely have a devastating...
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