Nations Pledge to Tackle Inequalities as part of New Targets to end HIV/AIDS by 2030
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 09 (IPS) – World leaders, those on the frontlines of the AIDS response, civil society, academics and youth have agreed that...
New clues suggest people reached the Americas around 30,000 years ago
Humans may have inhabited what’s now southern Mexico surprisingly early, between 33,448 and 28,279 years ago, researchers say. If so, those people arrived more...
In Myanmar, international action is needed urgently to prevent “mass deaths” there, after civilians fled attacks by so-called “junta bombs”, a top independent UN...
Scream of the World: Volcanos and Earthquakes
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jun 09 (IPS) – In February the killing of the Italian ambassador, Luca Attanasio, in the vicinity of the Virunga National...
ROME, Jun 09 (IPS) – Zoltán Kálmán is Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the UN Food and Agriculture Agencies in RomeIn three cycles...
Damage to Coral Reefs Hurts Fishing Communities in Central America
LOS CÓBANOS, El Salvador, Jun 09 (IPS) – As fisherman Luis Morán walked towards his small boat, which was floating in the water a...
Solving mysteries of reproduction helped make parenthood possible for millions
In the beginning, no one really understood how babies were made. Thinkers puzzled for millennia about how life arose from one generation to the...
A deep look at a speck of human brain reveals never-before-seen quirks
A new view of the human brain shows its cellular residents in all their wild and weird glory. The map, drawn from a tiny...
The 21st Century Nuclear Arms Race
NEW YORK, Jun 09 (IPS) – A new report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)—focusing on nuclear weapons spending—following on the...
The mere sight of illness may kick-start a canary’s immune system
For canaries, just seeing their feathered friends get sick may be enough to preemptively rev up their immune systems. Healthy birds housed within view...
Coordinated action on clean air and climate change can net $15 for every dollar spent 
Human rights chief Türk renews call for end to spiralling Sudan war 
AI: Türk urges action before it becomes an ‘existential risk to humanity’ 
UNGA 81: A United Nations at a Turning Point