Beyond Expo: Embedding the SDGs in the DNA of Future Technology and Innovation
BEIJING, Dec 14 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has moved us farther away from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Data shows that the pandemic...
A new and disturbing high temperature record for the Arctic of 38 degrees Celsius, or just over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, was confirmed by the...
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 14 (IPS) – We are former UN officials with decades of combined experience supporting international civil society and governments to advance...
BANGKOK, Thailand, Dec 14 (IPS) – Transport ministers from across Asia and the Pacific are meeting this week to consider a potentially transformational agenda...
Cool Scheme to Reduce Food Waste in Nigeria
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Dec 14 (IPS) – Food spoilage forced smallholder farmers out of pocket and out of business – until an entrepreneur came up...
How sleep may boost creativity
The twilight time between fully awake and sound asleep may be packed with creative potential. People who recently drifted off into a light sleep...
A bacteria-virus arms race could lead to a new way to treat shigellosis
When some bacteria manage to escape being killed by a virus, the microbes end up hamstringing themselves. And that could be useful in the...
Cicada science heats up when Brood X emerges. 2021 was no exception
In one of history’s weird coincidences, the second summer of a global pandemic brought Johns Hopkins biologist Ethan Allen Andrews out on a Baltimore...
Greed-Driven Pandemic Still Killing Millions
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Dec 14 (IPS) – Failure to vaccinate most in poor countries sustains the COVID-19 pandemic. Rich country greed and patent monopolies...
UNFPA: $835 million needed for ‘lifesaving’ reproductive healthcare in crisis settings
Life-saving sexual and reproductive health services are more vital than ever, the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) said on Monday, launching an $835 million appeal...
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’