South Sudan, the UN’s youngest Member State, is marking its tenth anniversary of independence amid languishing political progress and a range of humanitarian challenges,...
Canada Must Acknowledge its Problematic Bill 21
NEW DELHI, India, Jun 21 (IPS) – The June 5th attack on the Muslim family in London, Ontaria, has left many in Canada in...
Sowing Water: A Cuban Farm’s Bid for Sustainability
HAVANA, Jun 21 (IPS) – Cuban farmer José Antonio Casimiro found in the ageold technique of sowing water an opportunity to meet his farm’s...
50 years ago, UFO sightings in the United States went bust
What happened to UFOs? — Science News, June 26, 1971 Since 1968 the number of UFO sightings has dropped off, along with public interest...
The Dictators Daughter or the Farmers Son?
LIMA, Peru, Jun 21 (IPS) – The writer heads the office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in Lima, Peru.Peru’s first round of elections on 11...
New images clarify how glasswing butterflies make their wings transparent
Most butterflies sport colorful, eye-catching patterns on their wings. But some species, like the glasswing butterfly, use mostly transparent wings to hide in plain...
Kuciak Case Retrial An Opportunity to Break Global Cycle of Impunity in Journalist Killings
BRATISLAVA, Jun 21 (IPS) – A ruling last week ordering a retrial in the murders of a Slovak journalist and his fiancée has led...
The Western Peat Meadows of the Netherlands look like classic Dutch countryside (cows, windmills and green fields), but the views mask a significant loss...
Sustainability solution or climate calamity? The dangers and promise of cryptocurrency technology
The negative environmental impact of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin has been widely covered in the press in recent weeks and months, and their volatility...
Everyone has a duty to help refugees rebuild their lives after a particularly difficult year for so many – that’s the message from UN...
Meth trafficking across Middle East becoming more advanced, UNODC warns 
An attack on healthcare every six hours, and no one held to account 
Sudan: The harrowing reality of giving birth in a war zone 
How a brutal drought may have helped unleash yellow fever in Brazil