High altitudes may be a climate refuge for some birds, but not these hummingbirds
Cooler, higher locales may not be very welcoming to some hummingbirds trying to escape rising temperatures and other effects of climate change. Anna’s hummingbirds...
Climate Change Poses Risks: COP27 Presents Unique Opportunity for Africa
UNITED NATIONS, May 26 (IPS) – Ambassador Maria de Jesus dos Reis Ferreira was appointed in February 2018 as the Permanent Representative of Angola...
Afghan authorities urged to address serious human rights challenges
Afghanistan is at a crossroads and the de facto authorities, the Taliban, must pursue a path towards stability and freedom for all citizens, especially...
5 ways UN Peacekeeping partnerships drive peace and development
Every day, United Nations peacekeepers work to protect millions of vulnerable people in increasingly dangerous places in the world’s most fragile political contexts. Read...
African nations leading the way on ‘food systems transformation’: Guterres
African countries are at the vanguard of a vital transformation of food systems to simultaneously address food security, nutrition, social and environmental protection – all...
Peacekeepers’ Day ceremony honours service and sacrifice of UN blue helmets
The United Nations paid tribute to the men and women serving under its flag in some of the most dangerous places in the world...
What We Know About Mass School Shootings in the US – and the Gunmen Who Carry Them Out
May 26 (IPS) – When the Columbine High School massacre took place in 1999 it was seen as a watershed moment in the United...
4 answers to key questions about the monkeypox outbreak
An outbreak of monkeypox has some people worried that the world is on the brink of another pandemic. That’s not likely, experts say. The...
The UN Syria Commission of Inquiry said on Thursday that not extending current cross-border aid to Syria along the remaining route, would be a...
Not Enough Clean Water in Europe? Who Cares…
MADRID, May 26 (IPS) – So busy as they are with strengthening military alliances and devoting billions of taxpayers’ money to double their war...
Meth trafficking across Middle East becoming more advanced, UNODC warns 
An attack on healthcare every six hours, and no one held to account 
Sudan: The harrowing reality of giving birth in a war zone 
How a brutal drought may have helped unleash yellow fever in Brazil