Learning from the Tuberculosis Pandemic
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 29 (IPS) – As countries around the world—from Kenya to Canada, South Africa to Sweden—relish the prospect of an unofficial transition of...
Do we Really Need a World Ranking to Measure Happiness?
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Mar 29 (IPS) – The 10th edition of the World Happiness Report was recently published and once again the findings raised an...
‘Vagina Obscura’ shows how little is known about female biology
Vagina ObscuraRachel E. GrossW.W. Norton & Co., $30 More than 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates, the Greek physician often considered the father of modern medicine,...
Wally Broecker divined how the climate could suddenly shift
It was the mid-1980s, at a meeting in Switzerland, when Wally Broecker’s ears perked up. Scientist Hans Oeschger was describing an ice core drilled...
Grainy ice cream is unpleasant. Plant-based nanocrystals might help
You can never have too much ice cream, but you can have too much ice in your ice cream. Adding plant-based nanocrystals to the...
Entrepreneurship, investment key to achieving SDGs and resilient post-pandemic recovery
A United Nations forum opened in Dubai today, spotlighting entrepreneurship, innovation, and investment in a post-pandemic recovery as vehicles to achieving Sustainable Development Goals...
War or Peace, Barbarism or Hope
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Mar 29 (IPS) – The spectre of ‘stagflation’ threatens the world once again. This time, the risk is the direct...
Farmers in northern Haiti dig for resilience
Farmers in the north of Haiti are working to build their resilience to extreme weather patterns in an attempt to better protect themselves from...
UN’s Bachelet hails ‘millions of voices’ tackling racial discrimination
More than two decades after the signing of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (PoA) – the UN’s blueprint to tackle racism and other...
The Horn of Africa is experiencing the worst drought since 1981, and a shortfall in aid funding is putting the lives of millions of...
UN aims to raise nearly $50 million for Nepal flood response 
West Bank: UN rights report warns of forcible displacement from three refugee camps 
UN tells the world: Stop making Africa look small 
Repeated attacks on humanitarian warehouses put vital medical aid at risk in Ukraine: WHO