With climate-related disasters displacing more people than conflict, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday unveiled the details of his plan to ensure everyone on...
Greater global solidarity is needed to address the rapidly unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the Horn of Africa, where millions are going hungry due to...
Mass displacements in eastern DR Congo threaten young lives
The lives of thousands of children in overcrowded, unsanitary camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are...
Video reveals that springtails are tiny acrobats
It’s not just panic and chance. Some of nature’s extreme self-launchers, the springtails, turn out to be much more acrobatic than scientists thought. Springtails,...
Catastrophic solar storms may not explain shadows of radiation in trees
A cryptic chemical signature of unknown origins, hidden for centuries inside the trunks of Earth’s trees, just became even more mysterious. In the last...
Lessons from Rome. Weaving Peace Is a Polyphonic Dialogue
ROME, Nov 07 (IPS) – Arms are raised, stretched out towards the sky, holding white cards with the word “peace” written in different languages....
Africa: Will COP27 Deliver or be a Climate Forum of Empty Promises?
Bulawayo, Nov 07 (IPS) – Africa is counting on COP27 to deliver it from climate change. But will it? Read the full story, “Africa:...
Part of a lost, ancient star catalog has now been found
Fragments of a star catalog from the second century B.C. have turned up in a manuscript that had been erased and written over centuries...
Governor of Bukhara Province says UAE model to be emulated for peaceful co-existence
The governor of the Bukhara Province, Botir Zaripov, stated that upholding the highest human values in the consolidation of security, stability, and peace throughout...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 07 (IPS) – The 27th Conference Of Parties (COP27) on Climate Change comes at a time when we are facing...
One in five children in 21 nations faced tech-facilitated sexual abuse: UNICEF 
El Niño is surging. Months of extreme heat could follow 
Strengthen Africa’s Seed Systems El Niño Threat Becomes Reality Again 
A culprit for corrosion may have been operating under our noses