Wildfires: Prevention is the best defence, UN says
The wildfires burning across Europe and North America highlight the urgent need for action now – as climate change, land-use pressures and human activity...
Middle East crisis: Humanitarian fallout ‘worsening by the day’
The humanitarian toll is mounting as fighting continues in the Middle East beyond strikes and counterstrikes between the US and Iran, the UN aid...
Fear grows as freedoms shrink in Uganda
Uganda is experiencing a growing climate of fear as increasing restrictions on fundamental freedoms leave opposition supporters, journalists, human rights defenders and civil society...
Financing Africa’s Digital Future: Institutions Push for Smarter, Coordinated Funding
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 30 (IPS) – Africa’s digital revolution is gathering pace, but the financing needed to sustain it remains uneven, fragmented, and...
From the Foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, Magnolia Athletics Camp Is Helping Girls Stay in School, Pursue Athletics and Escape the Pressures of Harmful Traditional Practices
OLOITOKTOK, Kenya, July 30 (IPS) – Before sunrise each morning, 19-year-old Josephine Sembeyo joins dozens of teenage runners leaving Magnolia Athletics Camp for training...
Dual Crises in Eastern DRC as Ebola Surges and Hunger Deepens
UNITED NATIONS, July 30 (IPS) – The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is battling the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record, with United Nations officials...
US Casualty Figures Keep Fluctuating in War with Iran
UNITED NATIONS, July 31 (IPS) – An age-old axiom in Statistics reads: Figures Cannot Lie, But Liars Can Figure. And more so, in military...
A fire’s rumble reveals where it’s burning
Researchers tracked a prescribed grassland fire using infrasound, sound waves pitched too low for people to hear.
Mammals moving between the Americas stopped over in Mexico
Ancient mammals may have had an easier time moving across the Isthmus of Panama from north to south thanks to Mexico’s climate.
How one amino acid might help fight colon cancer and infections
Dietary arginine reduces tumor formation and viral load in mice by boosting key immune proteins.
‘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