Agricultural Power, Waning Industry Dictate Brazil’s Future
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 14 (IPS) – With its accelerated growth agriculture has emerged as a key sector of Brazil’s economy, but it is...
‘Historic expansion’ of joint UN fund to boost sustainable development
The UN Joint SDG Fund announced on Monday an additional $54.5 million in investments for projects across five countries, to try and get the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) back on...
Adapting to climate change ‘happening worldwide’, essential
The impacts of climate change are already “very visible” and “happening worldwide”, the head of the UN weather agency told the start of the...
Responding to New Threats to Poverty Eradication in Asia
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb 14 (IPS) – With consistent, robust economic growth, countries across Asia have made monumental strides in eradicating extreme poverty over the...
Dream. Dare. Do.
NEW YORK, Feb 14 (IPS) – Conflict, forced displacement, climate change and COVID-19 are disrupting the education of millions of crisis-affected children and adolescents...
LONDON, Feb 14 (IPS) – I am not sure the world will ever forgive us for worsening vaccine inequality and treatment of Africa as...
Inequality Kills One Person Every Four Seconds
Feb 14 (IPS) – Inequality is deadly… It contributes to the deaths of at least 21,300 people each day—or one person every four seconds....
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,...
As El Niño Returns, East Africa’s Urban Poor Brace for Heavy Rains 
Hunger is ‘an avoidable tragedy’ in a world of plenty: Türk 
UN condemns deadly wave of drone strikes in war-torn Sudan 
Guterres honours Indonesian troops who paid ‘ultimate sacrifice’