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...
Is it Time to Create a UN Political Body for Climate Change?
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 (IPS) – As a wisecracking cynic once remarked: “The sun would never set on the British empire because God wouldn’t...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jul 26 (IPS) – Undoubtedly, the world needs to reform existing food systems to better serve humanity and sustainable development. But...
Protecting Plants Will Protect People and the Planet
ROME, Jul 26 (IPS) – Back-to-back droughts followed by plagues of locusts have pushed over a million people in southern Madagascar to the brink...
No pathway to reach the Paris Agreement’s 1.5˚C goal without the G20: UN chief
“The world urgently needs a clear and unambiguous commitment to the 1.5 degree goal of the Paris Agreement from all G20 nations”, António Guterres...
The Dollar-Gold Standard’s Lingering Demise 
BRAZIL: ‘Resistance Is Intergenerational, and Art Is How Energy Gets Renewed’ 
The Global Leaders Network Pushes to Protect Women’s and Children’s Health 
The Takeaway: UN General Assembly debate Day 5