Successful Climate Solutions Require Investment in the Lives of Adolescent Girls
WASHINGTON DC, Oct 05 (IPS) – This year commemorates the 10th anniversary of the International Day of the Girl Child. While the last decade...
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Former German chancellor Angela Merkel was named winner of the prestigious Nansen Award, for offering a haven to over 1.2 million refugees and asylum...
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The absence of a functioning government in Iraq one year after elections were held is hard to justify, the top UN official in the...
Women in Argentine Slum Confront Violence Together
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 04 (IPS) – The Padre Carlos Mugica neighborhood looks like another city within the Argentine capital, which most people usually see...
Pakistan: To avert ‘second wave of death’, UN raises funding appeal to $816 million
Battling what the top UN aid official in Pakistan has warned is a “second wave of death and destruction”, following catastrophic flooding since June...
‘Breathless’ explores COVID-19’s origins and other pandemic science
BreathlessDavid QuammenSimon & Schuster, $29.99 When COVID-19 burst onto the global stage in 2020, it was deadly and disruptive. In the first weeks of...
Some Coronaviruses Kill, While Others Cause a Common Cold. We Are Getting Closer to Knowing Why
BELLVILLE, South Africa, Oct 04 (IPS) – It’s hard to imagine a time when “coronavirus” wasn’t a household word. But for a long time,...
Lives Hang in the Balance as Kenyas ASAL Region Ravaged by Severe Prolonged Drought
Nairobi, Oct 04 (IPS) – The sight of children begging for water from motorists along the Garissa highway in the northeastern part of Kenya...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now