Ukraine war: UN chief arrives for talks in Moscow as ‘messenger of peace’
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has stressed the need to “keep alive the values of multilateralism” amid the war in Ukraine and its fallouts across...
UN General Assembly mandates meeting in wake of any Security Council veto
The UN General Assembly decided on Tuesday to automatically meet within 10 days, if the veto is used in the Security Council by one...
Heightened security fears on Chernobyl disaster anniversary
On the 36th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, the world is again concerned about the safety of nuclear power plants, amid the...
TEANECK, New Jersey, Apr 26 (IPS) – It was a long, harrowing road for Freshta and Shabaneh, two mothers (their names are pseudonyms) who...
Indigenous Women in Mexico Take United Stance Against Inequality
UAYMA, Mexico, Apr 26 (IPS) – Every other Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. sharp, a group of 26 Mexican women meet for an hour to...
All of the bases in DNA and RNA have now been found in meteorites
More of the ingredients for life have been found in meteorites. Space rocks that fell to Earth within the last century contain the five...
Why you should care about ‘The Insect Crisis’
The Insect CrisisOliver MilmanW.W. Norton & Co., $27.95 Imagine a world without insects. You might breathe a sigh of relief at the thought of...
This camera lens can focus up close and far away at the same time
Ben Franklin had nothing on trilobites. Roughly 400 million years before the founding father invented bifocals, the now extinct trilobite Dalmanitina socialis already had...
Poor Water Distribution Infrastructure Gives Jamaica a ‘Water Scarce’ Label
Kingston, Jamaica, Apr 26 (IPS) – It will take billions of dollars and many years to fix a growing problem that has placed Jamaica...
The World Can Stop Capital Flight Now
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Apr 26 (IPS) – Curbing capital flight from developing countries is long overdue. New sanctions against Russian oligarchs show this can...
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