Forty Years of the ‘Right to Development’: When Growth Excludes, Is It Still Development?
UNITED NATIONS & BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, September 25 (IPS) – World leaders have warned that the most vulnerable people have been left behind as the...
Myanmar: Corporate Complicity in the Spotlight
LONDON, September 25 (IPS) – On 15 September, Norwegian police and security services raided the headquarters of Telenor in Oslo. Authorities accuse the multinational...
These are the first feathers ever found in fossilized dinosaur poop
The rare fossil hints that differences in plumage may explain why some Cretaceous-era birds survived an asteroid impact but others died.
See the secret to DNA hookups
A record player-like microscope and computer simulations solve a longtime mystery, showing that metal ions bridge DNA strands that would normally repel.
AI-Driven Climate Change Pushes Frontline Communities Further Into Environmental Degradation and Poverty
UNITED NATIONS, September 25 (IPS) – On September 21, Frontline Resource Institute (FRI) hosted its Climate Justice Hub at Fordham University at Lincoln Center...
From Commitments to Action: Centering Lived Experience in NCD Responses
UNITED NATIONS, September 25 (IPS) – On September 21, just prior to the opening of the United Nations General Assembly Debate (UNGA81), the NCD...
UNRWA work and mandate in ‘jeopardy’, Guterres warns
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) continues to operate under “extraordinary pressure”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday. Read...
Haitians can’t wait to return home and vote in elections says Prime Minister
“There is a people. A people who can wait no longer. A people waiting to regain security, to return home to work, to send...
‘Rising seas are sinking futures’
World leaders approved the UN Declaration on Sea Level Rise by consensus on Thursday as the UN chief warned that encroaching waters are already...
Israeli leader at UN: ‘We’re going to win. We have no other choice’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his address to the UN General Assembly to defend Israel’s strikes against Iran as a matter of national survival...
‘This is not about politics. This is about people’: UN warns of impact of deadly drone strikes in Sudan 
The UAE’s Great Leap: Building the City of the Future 
Earwax’s surprisingly slippery but sticky properties deters insects 
Food contains thousands of overlooked chemicals. This physicist is mapping them