Homo sapiens may have reached Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought
Stone Age Homo sapiens began migrating into Europe much longer ago than has typically been assumed. Discoveries at a rock-shelter in southern France put...
Three Key Questions for Understanding Shifts in Global Poverty
LONDON, Feb 09 (IPS) – In 2010 and the following years, there was attention to the fact that much of global poverty had shifted...
Pro-rich Policies Buoy Billionaires Rise in India
NEW DELHI, Feb 09 (IPS) – If India ranks among the world’s fastest growing economies it is also where inequity is growing the fastest,...
From Zero Yield to Bumper Harvest
BLANTYRE, MALAWI, Feb 09 (IPS) – In the past, the people of Sande Village in Chikwawa district, Malawi, would go to bed with empty...
Many Good Reasons to Eat More Pulses – And Perhaps Less Meat!
MADRID, Feb 09 (IPS) – Pulses and meat are both needed as part of your diet, however… While the total emissions of greenhouse gases...
Weird ‘superionic’ matter could make up Earth’s inner core
A quirky material that behaves like a mishmash of liquid and solid could be hidden deep in the Earth. Computer simulations described in two...
How the Human Genome Project revolutionized understanding of our DNA
In October 1990, biologists officially embarked on one of the century’s most ambitious scientific efforts: reading the 3 billion pairs of genetic subunits —...
How one scientist aims to boost Black people’s representation in genetic datasets
Nearly two decades after researchers assembled the first genetic blueprint for human life, our understanding of our instruction manual has a dramatic and problematic...
Severe drought threatens 13 million with hunger in Horn of Africa
An estimated 13 million people are waking up severely hungry every day in the Horn of Africa, as the region grapples with a major...
Dissolving the Tunisian body that deals with judicial independence, known as the High Judicial Council, is a “clear violation” of the country’s obligations under...
As wildfires spread north, UN agencies race to help Europe adapt 
Central Park adapts to climate change while helping New York stay cool 
UN aims to raise nearly $50 million for Nepal flood response 
West Bank: UN rights report warns of forcible displacement from three refugee camps