Pandemic cannot become a ‘media extinction event’: UN Secretary-General
The financial decline of many public interest media organizations worldwide has been among the dangerous side-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Secretary-General António Guterres said...
Revived peace process, lasting calm, and a new constitution needed in Syria
In addition to the challenges that all Syrians have faced during a 10-year conflict, women have experienced sexual and gender-based violence, early and forced...
Spyware Threatens Press Freedoms Privacy Imperative
NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) – Spyware’s repeated use to target journalists and those close to them poses an existential threat to the privacy...
A clock’s accuracy may be tied to the entropy it creates
Today’s most advanced clocks keep time with an incredibly precise rhythm. But a new experiment suggests that clocks’ precision comes at a price: entropy....
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday named investigative journalist and media executive Maria Ressa of the Philippines as the...
Fresh clashes between Myanmar security forces and regional armed groups have displaced thousands across the country, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs...
Child displacement in the Central African Republic (CAR) has now reached its highest level since 2014, according to the latest estimates from the UN...
Why Experts are Saying Its a Make or Break Moment for Forests
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 28 (IPS) – A new global report on forests says that while the COVID-19 pandemic is the latest threat to achieving...
Why Variants are Most Likely to Blame for India’s COVID Surge
Apr 28 (IPS) – With more than 300,000 new COVID cases a day and hospitals and crematoria facing collapse, Director-General of the World Health...
Climate change may have changed the direction of the North Pole’s drift
A sudden zag in which way the North Pole’ was drifting in the 1990s probably stemmed in large part from glacial melt caused by...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now