Americas: Pace of Omicron slows amid rising COVID infections
COVID infections and deaths in North America continue to rise, as hospitalizations increase throughout the whole continent, the head of the World Health Organization’s...
Argentina Seeks a Way Out (Again) of its Economic and Social Labyrinth
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 02 (IPS) – Accustomed for decades to recurring economic crises, and hit hard in recent years by a steady loss of...
Endgame for Polio in Pakistan
KARACHI, Feb 02 (IPS) – “It was like a heavy burden had been lifted, and I could breathe easier,” said Irum Khan, a polio...
Fighting Corruption Essential to Reducing Inequality in Pacific Islands
CANBERRA, Australia, Feb 02 (IPS) – Corruption continues to have a crippling effect on the lives of many people in southwest Pacific Island countries,...
The "Kidneys of the Earth" Are Disappearing
MADRID, Feb 02 (IPS) – This is about Wetlands, which are considered as a natural solution to the global threat of climate change. They...
Genetically engineered immune cells have kept two people cancer-free for a decade
In 2010, two blood cancer patients received an experimental immunotherapy, and their cancers went into remission. Ten years later, the cancer-fighting immune cells used...
Vinegar eels can synchronize swim
Trapped within a bead of water, thousands of tiny worms wiggle in hypnotic synchrony as they stream around the globule’s rim. And at the...
A faulty immune response may be behind lingering brain trouble after COVID-19
A tussle with COVID-19 can leave people’s brains fuzzy. SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, doesn’t usually make it into the brain directly. But the...
Wetlands: ‘Unsung heroes’ of the climate crisis
For the first time, the United Nations on Wednesday celebrates World Wetlands Day, recognizing that these fragile ecosystems make a crucial contribution to biodiversity, climate mitigation, freshwater availability, and economic...
Damaged Natural Infrastructure Exacerbates Urban Flooding in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 02 (IPS) – People living in Jardim Pantanal, a low-income neighborhood on the east side of the Brazilian megalopolis of...
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’