Negotiations began on Monday to approve a UN science report which will anchor high level summits later this year, charged with boosting climate action worldwide. Read...
Landmark elections in the Occupied Palestinian territory must be rescheduled soon and include East Jerusalem, three UN independent human rights experts said in a...
Outstanding sites added to UNESCO World Heritage List
An ancient temple in India and a “cultural landscape” in Spain have become two of the latest sites to be registered on the UN’s prestigious World Heritage List. Read the full story, “Outstanding...
At least half a million children under five in drought-afflicted southern Madagascar are on the verge of acute malnourishment, two UN agencies warned on Monday. Read the...
Latin America Sets an Example in Welcoming Displaced Venezuelans
CARACAS, Jul 26 (IPS) – The exodus of more than five million Venezuelans in the last six years has led countries in the developing...
More women and children were killed and wounded in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021 than in the first six months of any...
UNFPA Calls for Protection & Justice for Women & Girls in Tigray
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 (IPS) – The writer is UNFPA Regional Director for East and Southern Africa.The 2018 Nobel Laureate, Dr. Denis Mukwege, a...
A stunning visualization of Alaska’s Yukon Delta shows a land in transition
The westward journey of the mighty Yukon River takes it from its headwaters in Canada’s British Columbia straight across Alaska. The river has many...
‘Wild Souls’ explores what we owe animals in a human-dominated world
Wild SoulsEmma MarrisBloomsbury, $28 On the Arctic Ocean’s fringe, polar bears stand on ice thinning from human-caused climate change. Without thick ice from which...
3.42-billion-year-old fossil threads may be the oldest known archaea microbes
Threadlike filaments pressed in rock may be the remnants of archaea that burped methane near hydrothermal vents 3.42 billion years ago. If so, these...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
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This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
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