The next three months will be a critical period for stepping up global collective action against future pandemics, the head of the World Health...
Climate solutions, changemakers, and celebrities: major UN podcast series launched
The UN launches No Denying It, a new 10-part climate action podcast, on Thursday, featuring interviews with inspiring young activists, and the voices of...
This big-headed pterosaur may have preferred walking over flying
In 2013, a police raid at Santos Harbor in Brazil recovered about 30,000 smuggled fossils, including the most intact specimen of a type of...
Ancient DNA shows the peopling of Southeast Asian islands was surprisingly complex
A young woman who lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi as early as around 7,300 years ago had a surprisingly ancient East Asian...
Finding solutions based on peace and development is crucial for the future of the nearly seven million forcibly displaced people from Sudan and South...
Cuba, a Small Island State Seeking to Manage Its Vulnerability
HAVANA, Aug 25 (IPS) – This article forms part of the special IPS coverage of the Solutions Forum, a high-level conference of Small Island...
Haunting Photos of Bangladesh’s COVID Pandemic
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Aug 25 (IPS) – Documentary photographer and filmmaker Mohammad Rakibul Hasan has documented the health crisis in Bangladesh over the past several...
Racism lurks in names given to plants and animals. That’s starting to change
With lemon and black plumage, the Scott’s oriole flashes in the desert like a flame. But the bird’s name holds a violent history that...
The Tragedy of Afghanistan: Is there a Way Forward?
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Aug 25 (IPS) – The writer is former UNICEF Resident Project Officer in Kabul (1999 –2001) and Resident Project Officer in...
Resilience in a Riskier World
BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 25 (IPS) – Over the past two decades, the Asia-Pacific region has made remarkable progress in managing disaster risk. But countries...
Türkiye’s changes to child detention ‘raise serious human rights concerns’ 
Ukraine: Civilian casualties hit highest level since March 2022 
World News in Brief: Afghanistan education, Myanmar flooding, Syria recovery, homecare workers in New York 
Ebola tracing improves in DR Congo – but the virus is still winning the race