Bridging the Gap and Crossing the Bridge
NEW YORK, Jul 09 (IPS) – Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot WaitIt may be a challenge, but it is also an absolute necessity:...
A Film Challenging Religious Norms
NEW DELHI, India, Jul 09 (IPS) – When Turkish- Norwegian writer and filmmaker Nefise Ozkal Lorentzen heard about Seyran Ates’ mixed gender mosque in...
50 years ago, scientists found a virus lurking in human cancer cells
A virus from human cancer — Science News, July 10, 1971 [Researchers] cultured and isolated the … virus from tissue of a child patient...
The gap in parenting time between middle- and working-class moms has shrunk
Time is a finite resource. So it’s not entirely surprising that after decades of ramping up time spent on parenting, some well-educated mothers appear...
Why planting tons of trees isn’t enough to solve climate change
Trees are symbols of hope, life and transformation. They’re also increasingly touted as a straightforward, relatively inexpensive, ready-for-prime-time solution to climate change. When it...
Q&A: UN Food Systems Summit Opportunity for the World to Unite on Healthy, Fair & Sustainable Food Systems
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 09 (IPS) – Before the COVID-19 pandemic upended every sphere of life, the world was lagging on a goal to end...
The New Social Contract: an Opportunity for Deliberative Participation
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jul 09 (IPS) – These days there hasn’t been certainly a shortage of reports portraying the decline of liberal democracy around the...
Job losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic combined with high food prices are making it hard for millions of families to get enough to...
Half of the world’s children experience violence on and offline in some form every year, with “devastating and life-long consequences” for their mental health,...
Time running out for countries on climate crisis front line
The world’s running out of time to limit global temperature rise to below two degrees Celsius, a matter of life or death for climate...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now