When a country goes underwater: Island States fight for their future
Rising sea levels and ever-more-powerful storms are eroding shorelines, submerging land and threatening to evict millions of people from their homes worldwide. Read the...
Floods, Hunger and Disease Pile on Myanmar’s Civil War Misery
YANGON, Myanmar, September 23 (IPS) – Isolated and at constant war with itself, Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis is deepening as global challenges far exceed the...
IRAQ: ‘Art Is the Only Weapon That Doesn’t Hurt or Kill’
CIVICUS discusses public art, gender-based violence and censorship in Iraqi Kurdistan with Tara Abdullah, a multidisciplinary visual artist from Sulaymaniyah who is currently based...
Finally, a true blue rose exists
Scientists engineered roses that made both a blue pigment and a colorless helper molecule that brought out its shade.
First series of adult T. rex footprints hints at its walking speed
The steps were poorly preserved, but still hint at an ambling pace of 1.6 meters per second, roughly equivalent to a quick walking speed...
Qatar: Absence of a regional collective security system is fuelling crisis in the Gulf
The crisis in the Gulf should come as a surprise to no one, the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said...
‘Time is running out’ for Israel-Palestine two-State solution
The UN chief warned on Tuesday that the two-State solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict is at risk of collapse amid illegal Israeli settlement expansion...
Choose international order over ‘law of the jungle’, urges Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that the world faces a stark choice: “Do we want to live…with a return to the law...
‘Ask us first’: Children demand a voice on AI’s future
The first generation to grow up with AI may also be the last one anyone thinks to ask about it – and that has...
How El Niño offers a test of whether the world can adapt to a changing climate
El Niño is strengthening in a world that is already hotter, raising the risk of drought, floods and crop losses across some of the...
‘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