Call for Increased Global Efforts to Ease Africas Climate-Induced Water Crisis
Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE, Feb 14 (IPS) – When years ago warnings were sounded that future wars would be fought not over oil but water, the...
ONE OCEAN SUMMIT An Opportunity For Blue Transformation
ROME, Feb 14 (IPS) – The ocean covers more than 70 percent of our planet. There is no question it is critical for our...
How ‘hot Jupiters’ may get their weirdly tight orbits
Strange giant planets known as hot Jupiters, which orbit close to their suns, got kicked onto their peculiar paths by nearby planets and stars,...
Freshwater ice can melt into scallops and spikes
Water’s wacky density leads to strange effects that researchers are still uncovering. Typically, liquids become denser the more they cool. But freshwater is densest...
Radio: The universal medium that leaves no one behind
In the age of new communication technologies and social media, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) recently announced the designation of new FM frequencies to...
Ensuring safety and inclusive elections in Timor-Leste: A UN Resident Coordinator blog
As Timor-Leste prepares to choose a new president in March, Roy Trivedy, the senior UN official in the country, explains the Organization’s role in...
The bittersweet taste of home: Former ISIL wife returns to Kazakhstan
More than 600 family members of ISIL fighters have been repatriated from Syria to Kazakhstan over the last three years, as part of an...
Veterans reflect on past, present and future of radio at the UN
This year’s World Radio Day marked on Sunday, focuses on the pertinent theme of “Radio and Trust”, at a time when misinformation and disinformation...
Women building a sustainable future: green business begins to sprout in Ukraine
In Ukraine, home to heavy industry and one of the largest coal mining operations in the world, passionate women entrepreneurs are adopting new approaches...
Rebuilding Haiti: The post-earthquake path to recovery
Six months after a devastating earthquake in south-west Haiti which caused the deaths of 2,200 people and injured 12,700 more, the international community is...
Sudan: The harrowing reality of giving birth in a war zone 
How a brutal drought may have helped unleash yellow fever in Brazil 
A light-based scan could detect deadly bowel disease in preterm babies 
Colombia quake: In Cali’s ruins, an ‘overwhelming sense of humanity’