How intricate Venus’s-flower-baskets manipulate the flow of seawater
A Venus’s-flower-basket isn’t all show. This stunning deep-sea sponge can also alter the flow of seawater in surprising ways. A lacy, barrel-shaped chamber forms...
Historic docklands and buildings in the UK city of Liverpool have been removed from the UN cultural body UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites, it announced on...
Shortages Reveal Low Priority of Womens Health in Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal, Jul 21 (IPS) – One year after Nepal’s Ministry of Health (MoH) appealed to international organisations in the country to urgently supply...
NEW YORK, Jul 21 (IPS) – The writer is Senior Africa Researcher at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)Tsaone Basimanebotlhe was not expecting security...
Confronting a Worsening Climate
URBANA, Illinois, Jul 21 (IPS) – Across the United States, the last few months have brought along many climate-linked disasters. From surging wildfires in...
A century of astronomy revealed Earth’s place in the universe
A century ago, the Milky Way galaxy was the entirety of the known universe. We had no idea what made the stars shine, and...
This butterfly is the first U.S. insect known to go extinct because of people
It’s been roughly 80 years since the Xerces blue butterfly was last spotted flitting about on pastel wings across coastal California sand dunes. But...
Vaccines Delayed are Vaccines Denied
Jul 20 (IPS) – “Vaccine equity is the challenge of our time,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), told the...
Secretary-General António Guterres strongly condemned the “horrific bomb attack targeting civilians” at a busy market in the north-east of the Iraqi capital, just before the Eid al-Adha holiday. Read...
Conceptual Advances for United Nations 2.0
WASHINGTON DC, Jul 20 (IPS) – The writer is a Research Analyst at Stimson CenterThe forthcoming UN Secretary-General’s “Our Common Agenda” report, to be...
As El Niño Returns, East Africa’s Urban Poor Brace for Heavy Rains 
Hunger is ‘an avoidable tragedy’ in a world of plenty: Türk 
UN condemns deadly wave of drone strikes in war-torn Sudan 
Guterres honours Indonesian troops who paid ‘ultimate sacrifice’