Sea otters stay warm thanks to leaky mitochondria in their muscles
Sea otters’ secret to staying warm isn’t in thick stores of blubber. It’s in their muscles. Leaks in the energy-generating parts of muscle cells...
How Romanesco cauliflower forms its spiraling fractals
The swirling green cones that make up the head of Romanesco cauliflower also form a fractal pattern — one that repeats itself on multiple...
How your DNA may affect whether you get COVID-19 or become gravely ill
Some people can blame their DNA for making them more likely to get COVID-19 or becoming severely ill if they get infected. A study...
A new study released on Thursday by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) illustrates the devastating impact of COVID-19 on victims and survivors of human...
Calls to Halt Construction of Massive Oilfield in One of Africas last Wildernesses
BRATISLAVA, Jul 08 (IPS) – Wildlife and environmental campaigners have called for international action as concerns grow over a project to create a massive...
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, Jul 08 (IPS) – June 2021 marked the launch of UN Decade on Ecosystem restoration. This effort aims at reversing the...
Investing in Education as Driver for All Our Futures
ISLAMABAD / LAGOS, Jul 07 (IPS) – Never before have so many children been out of school. 1.6 billion children and young people –...
Bangladesh’s Indigenous Forest Dwellers Fear Losing Ancestral Land as Officials Grapple with Land Grabs
TANGAIL, Bangladesh, Jul 07 (IPS) – When the Bangladesh Forest Department felled Basanti Rema’s banana orchard, Rema, a Garo indigenous forest-dweller of Madhupur Forest,...
The global death toll due to COVID-19 officially passed four million late on Wednesday, marking yet another “grim milestone” and underlining the urgent need...
Another Impending Cataclysm in Afghanistan
GENEVA, Jul 08 (IPS) – The Biden administration made a decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan based on the Trump-Taliban agreement. Their last...
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’ 
‘Season of fear’: Escalating Israeli attacks on West Bank olive farmers, deadly strikes on Gaza