Warning: Climate Crisis Is Now the Single Biggest Health Threat Facing Humanity
MADRID, Apr 05 (IPS) – While the world’s top scientists and experts continue their arduous work to finally submit to politicians at the 27th...
Racial bias can seep into U.S. patients’ medical notes
When health care providers enter notes into patients’ electronic health records, they are more likely to portray Black patients negatively compared with white patients,...
A star nicknamed ‘Earendel’ may be the most distant yet seen
A chance alignment may have revealed a star from the universe’s first billion years. If confirmed, this star would be the most distant one...
Deepening Stagflation: Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 05 (IPS) – The world is sailing into a perfect storm as key leaders seem intent on threatening more...
Perils of Hunger, Food Insecurity in Southern Africa- Challenges & Opportunities
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Apr 05 (IPS) – Food systems are under severe stress around the world now. The thresholds of tolerance are already exceeding...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Apr 05 (IPS) – On the battleground that has become African wildlife conservation, rural communities find themselves in the middle...
Almost everyone now breathing polluted air, warns WHO
An astonishing 99 per cent of the world’s population breathes polluted air that exceeds internationally approved limits, with negative health impacts kicking in at...
8 reasons not to give up hope – and take climate action
Although once again the scientific community has made clear this week that we are not doing enough to limit global warming to the crucial...
A UN report says stopping climate change is possible but action is needed now
It doesn’t have to be this way. The world already has the know-how and tools to dramatically reduce emissions from fossil fuels — but...
Bucha killings raise ‘serious’ questions about possible war crimes: Bachelet
Senior UN officials have echoed the Secretary-General’s call for an independent investigation into the killing of scores of civilians in the Ukrainian town of...
‘Make or bake time’: Guterres urges climate justice pact as leaders gather at COP31 
Lebanon: After 48 years patrolling the Blue Line, UN peacekeepers prepare exit 
Hotter World, Older Population: How Long Can Climate COPs Ignore the Obvious? 
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2026