A partial skeleton reveals the world’s oldest known shark attack
Somewhere off southeastern Japan’s coast around 3,000 years ago, a shark attacked and killed a man who was likely fishing or shellfish diving. Afterward,...
Europe’s Catastrophic Flooding Was Forecast Well in Advance – What Went So Wrong?
Jul 22 (IPS) – Almost 200 people dead and many others still missing. Billions of euros’ worth of damage. Communities devastated. Thousands of homes...
Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing global climate, water-related hazards top the list of natural disasters with the highest human losses in the...
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Jul 23 (IPS) – Following the Supreme Court’s decision to reinstall the House of Representatives and appoint– after a prolonged and nasty...
Nearly half of the 1.7 million children worldwide living with HIV were not on treatment last year, the UN programme leading the global fight against...
The head of the UN food relief agency called on the world’s richest nations on Thursday to invest more in sustainable living, to feed...
COVID-19: Africa ‘third wave’ not yet over, while vaccine inequity threatens all
Although new COVID-19 cases in Africa have slowed following an eight-week surge, this “small step forward” could be short-lived, the Regional Office of the...
Lifesaving assistance arrived for the beleaguered Tigray region of Ethiopia on Thursday as the first UN World Food Programme (WFP) plane carrying humanitarian workers touched down in the capital Mekelle. Read...
Marsquakes reveal the Red Planet boasts a liquid core half its diameter
Mars has had its first CT scan, thanks to analyses of seismic waves picked up by NASA’s InSight lander. Diagnosis: The Red Planet’s core...
Rwandan Farmers Pin Hopes on New Tech to Tackle Food Losses
KIGALI, Rwanda, Jul 22 (IPS) – Rwanda is trying to reduce post-harvest loss by relying on new technologies to increase the amount of food...
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