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...
Top UN Haiti envoy hails commitment to hold new elections
The UN Special Representative for Haiti on Thursday, acknowledged the legitimacy of Prime Minister Claude Joseph to lead the Caribbean nation, following the “cowardly”...
The United Nations stands ready to support Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan in efforts to resolve their decade-long disagreement over the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), senior officials told the Security Council on Thursday. ...
These weird, thin ice crystals are springy and bendy
Try to bend an icicle and it’ll snap in two. With its tendency to crack into shards, ice’s reputation for being stiff and brittle...
Peru’s penguins are on the brink. A super El Niño could make it worse. 
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