A new map shows where carbon needs to stay in nature to avoid climate disaster
Over decades, centuries and millennia, the steady skyward climb of redwoods, the tangled march of mangroves along tropical coasts and the slow submersion of...
How massive stars in binary systems turn into carbon factories
The next time you thank your lucky stars, you might want to bless the binaries. New calculations indicate that a massive star whose outer...
1 in 2 Humans Cannot Celebrate World Toilet Day – This Is Why
Did you know that half of the world’s population do not have toilets? And that, globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking...
This eco-friendly glitter gets its color from plants, not plastic
All that glitters is not green. Glitter and shimmery pigments are often made using toxic compounds or pollutive microplastics (SN: 4/15/19). That makes the...
Youth embody ‘spirit’ of 21st century more than parents, new survey shows
Even in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and other global challenges, children and youth are nearly 50 per cent more likely...
Children Address Unequal Access to Education During Pandemic
DUBAI, Nov 18 (IPS) – In the whirl of effort nations are making to combat COVID-19, the powerful role that children and young people...
Although progress has been made in Somalia’s electoral process, it has been slow and uneven, the UN Special Representative for the country said in...
Anxiety in Afghanistan as Taliban struggles for legitimacy
Despite a crisis of trust both within the country and abroad, three months after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, it is taking halting...
How missing data makes it harder to measure racial bias in policing
From 2012 to 2015, a team of researchers collected 2.9 million police officer patrol records in Chicago. The team’s analysis of that data, from...
Antimicrobial Resistance Calls for Brainpower of a Space Agency and Campaigning Zeal of an NGO
Nov 17 (IPS) – The cost of infectious diseases is somewhere between staggering and incalculable. Around $8 trillion and 156 million life years were...
The Cost of Excluding Refugees 
WHO Launches New Global Health Strategy for Childhood Cancer Medications 
UN fact-finding mission on Iran focuses on plight of civilians 
Gender equality woefully off track, new UN report reveals