The Earth Is Burning — And We Are Still Choosing to Let It
VICTORIA, Seychelles, August 10 (IPS) – I have spent my life on an island. From the granite hills of Mahé, one can watch the...
Asia’s Energy Progress Is Great, But Must Pick Up Pace
MELBOURNE, Australia, August 10 (IPS) – In much of the Asia-Pacific region, energy is a success story. Electricity access has greatly increased and the...
Living Longer at Age 80
PORTLAND, USA, August 10 (IPS) – Upon reaching the age of 80, men and women are living longer than ever before. These gains in longevity...
Sad or afraid? Dogs may be able to read your face
A new brain-imaging study suggests that dogs may be able to distinguish between certain negative human emotions just by looking at people’s faces.
Science backs calls for limiting screens in schools
School device use links with lower test scores and distractions abound. But reversing the entrenched pandemic pivot to screens will be hard.
Sudan: ‘It made me dream again’: The students refusing to let war stop their education
Sarah Tekhlu was ready to give up on university. An Eritrean refugee, she had already been displaced once from Khartoum to Madani, then again...
Palestinian Children Deserve Education, not Ethnic Cleansing
ROME, August 10 (IPS) – World News are more or less currently fully occupied with the U.S. – Iran debacle and to a lesser...
INDIA: ‘The Cockroach Janta Party Brings Together Everyone Who Has Been Neglected for Years’
CIVICUS discusses India’s Cockroach Janta Party movement with Harshit Singh, a young activist, poet and storyteller who took part in protests in Delhi. Read...
Where Some See Waste, Others See Opportunity: Young Sierra Leoneans Fight Against Electronic Waste, Plastic Pollution
FREETOWN, August 10 (IPS) – Growing up, Peter George, a young innovator in Bo District in Southern Region, Sierra Leone, watched people dump electronic...
For Brazil’s Indigenous youth, visibility is resistance
As climate change reshapes Indigenous territories across Brazil, a new generation is turning to culture and digital platforms to defend their lands and their...
‘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