Interview: The most impactful actions at COP26 point to progress on climate change
Of the many agreements and initiatives announced at the 26th UN Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, the UN Climate Communications Lead at the Department of Global Communications narrowed...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is headed to Colombia this week to mark the fifth anniversary of the signing of the peace accords that ended...
SINGAPORE, Nov 22 (IPS) – It has been said that when Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war. The summit of the...
Corporate Fear Drives Caribbean Vaccine COVID-19 Mandates
KINGSTON, Nov 22 (IPS) – When face-to-face Cabinet meetings resumed in Jamaica following more than a year of virtual meetings due to COVID-19, Ministers...
A space rock called Kamoʻoalewa may be a piece of the moon
The moon’s violent history is written across its face. Over billions of years, space rocks have punched craters into its surface, flinging out debris....
Scientists finally detected a quantum effect that blocks atoms from scattering light
A cloud of ultracold atoms is like a motel with a neon “no vacancy” sign. If a guest at the motel wants to switch...
WASHINGTON DC/SAN DIEGO, Nov 22 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects across the globe, but the data and evidence show that...
The number of musk deer in Mongolia has plummeted by some 83 per cent since the 1970s, landing them on the country’s red list...
The children of families who were affected by the massive earthquake which devastated large parts of south-west Haiti in August this year are receiving...
Nadya Zafira, an international relations student at Indonesia’s Gadjah Mada University, won a writing competition for her letter to UN chief António Guterres, in...
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’ 
‘Season of fear’: Escalating Israeli attacks on West Bank olive farmers, deadly strikes on Gaza