Sexual violence in conflict “reverberates down generations” and threatens both human and international security, the UN chief said on Thursday in his message for the...
Amid worsening socioeconomic conditions, rising criminal gang violence and a resurgence of COVID-19, Haiti’s leaders must commit to good-faith dialogue aimed at ending a longstanding...
When it comes to global warming and sea level rise, scientists have made some dire predictions. One of the most calamitous involves the widespread collapse...
Quantum mechanics usually applies to very small objects: atoms, electrons and the like. But physicists have now brought the equivalent of a 10-kilogram object to...
BHUBANESWAR, India, Jun 17 (IPS) – June 17 is World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. A new report shows that climate change, overuse and...
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 17 (IPS) – The Caribbean Public Health Agency is banking on high-quality research to inform policy, programming and clinical practice, amid ‘unceasing’...
TsunamiJames Goff and Walter DudleyOxford Univ., $34.95 On March 27, 1964, Ted Pederson was helping load oil onto a tanker in Seward, Alaska, when a...
NEW YORK, Jun 16 (IPS) – The climate crisis is amplifying the effects of instability and violence in the world’s poorest countries. Nowhere is this...
VANCOUVER, Canada, Jun 16 (IPS) – Looking through my emails for the last year, I was struck by how often the adjective “unprecedented” occurred. The...
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jun 16 (IPS) – International correspondent Jeffrey Moyo, who was a released from detention today after being arrested for breaching Zimbabwe’s Immigration Act...
