Conserving Tigers, Elephants and Bison, One LPG Stove at a Time
HYDERBAD, India, Apr 01 (IPS) – As the sun sets over the canopy of Albizia amara trees, a thin blanket of fog begins to...
Generation Equality: Womens Leadership as a Catalyst for Change, Say 49 UN Women Envoys
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 01 (IPS) – This article has been co-authored and signed by 49 UN women Ambassadors*March, women’s history month, closes with the...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 01 (IPS) – Illicit financial flows (IFFs) hurt all countries, both developed and developing. But poor countries suffer relatively...
Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine has 100 percent efficacy in young people
Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine proved highly effective in adults. Now it appears to work well in younger people too. In a Phase III...
Frog skin cells turned themselves into living machines
Using blobs of skin cells from frog embryos, scientists have grown creatures unlike anything else on Earth, a new study reports. These microscopic “living...
A meteor may have exploded over Antarctica 430,000 years ago
Seventeen tiny particles recovered from a flat-topped mountain in eastern Antarctica suggest that a space rock shattered low in the atmosphere over the ice-smothered...
Stone Age culture bloomed inland, not just along Africa’s coasts
Africa’s southern Kalahari Desert is not typically regarded as a hotbed of Stone Age innovations. And yet human culture blossomed there around 105,000 years...
These are the 5 costliest invasive species, causing billions in damages
Invasive species can wreak havoc on local ecosystems. Cleaning up that biological wreckage comes at a big price. These invaders, often thrust into new...
Recipes with a Taste of Sustainable Development on the Coast of El Salvador
SAN LUIS LA HERRADURA, El Salvador, Mar 31 (IPS) – Salvadoran villager Maria Luz Rodriguez placed the cheese on top of the lasagna she...
Farming-Specific Loans Help Tanzania’s Smallholders Increase Productivity
MADABA/MAFINGA, Tanzania, Mar 31 (IPS) – Small agricultural loans, disbursed through mobile phones and targeting specific farming activities at different phases of production, have...
The grass beneath our feet: Why rangelands matter 
Former rebel fighters join campaign against Ebola in the DR Congo 
900 obstacles and counting: West Bank families trapped as aid access shrinks 
‘Ebola is winning’: Epidemic now killing one person every 30 minutes