MANOA, Hawaii / TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec 06 (IPS) – Many countries around the world have punished most of the African continent for the scientific...
Poor Communities on the Salvadoran Coast Face Constant Threat of Eviction
SAN LUIS LA HERRADURA, El Salvador, Dec 06 (IPS) – Small farmer Francisco Martínez pushed his son’s wheelchair to another part of the courtyard...
Light-colored feathers may help migrating birds stay cool on long flights
From teeny hummingbirds to giant whooping cranes, roughly half of the world’s more than 10,000 bird species migrate. Longer wings and beefed-up flying muscles...
Invasive grasses are taking over the American West’s sea of sagebrush
No one likes a cheater, especially one that prospers as easily as the grass Bromus tectorum does in the American West. This invasive species...
Climate change could make Virginia’s Tangier Island uninhabitable by 2051
Virginia’s Tangier Island is rapidly disappearing. Rising sea levels are exacerbating erosion and flooding, and could make the speck of land in the Chesapeake...
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 06 (IPS) – The 21-month long pandemic, which began with the outbreak of the deadly corona virus back in March 2020,...
First Person: ‘Trafficking is a crime can happen in front of our eyes’
Ilias Chatzis heads up a global team of more than 60 experts at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), committed to countering...
From the Field: ‘climate-smart’ development in an uncertain world
Today, when the UN plans initiatives to help vulnerable communities become more resilient, the climate crisis has to be part of the equation. The...
Amidst “truly unprecedented levels” of hunger in Afghanistan, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday that as winter arrives, avoiding widespread starvation “is an immediate priority”. Read the full story,...
Experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council have called for urgent action to end violence against women and girls caught in the Tigray...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now