NEW DELHI, India, Mar 16 (IPS) – Climate change is one of the most pressing issues that the world is collectively facing at the...
BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar 16 (IPS) – The COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented threat to development in the Asia-Pacific region that could reverse much of...
Phosphorus for Earth’s earliest life may have been forged by lightning
One key ingredient for life thought to be delivered to Earth by meteorites may have been homemade after all. The phosphorus that went into...
Most of Mars’ missing water may lurk in its crust
An ocean’s worth of water may be lurking in minerals below Mars’ surface, which could help explain why the Red Planet dried up. Once...
Policy Inconsistencies and Poor Research Slow Young Farmers in Africa
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Mar 16 (IPS) – It is not everyday that a young farmer registers success in his enterprise and vows this is what...
A deadly fungus behind hospital outbreaks was found in nature for the first time
A deadly fungus that seemed to spring up out of nowhere in hospitals has been found in nature for the first time. Researchers isolated...
Are High-Ranking UN Jobs the Political Birthright of Big Powers?
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 15 (IPS) – The United Nations has continued to pursue a notoriously longstanding tradition of doling out some of the highest-ranking...
How to Achieve Peace in Afghanistan
GENEVA, Mar 15 (IPS) – There is much expectation about US President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan strategy to end the United States’ longest war effectively....
An ancient hippo-sized reptile may have been surprisingly agile
Some 260 million years ago, before the rise of dinosaurs, bone-crushing anteosaurs reigned as land’s largest predators. A new analysis of an anteosaur skull...
Bee larvae drum with their butts, which may confuse predatory wasps
A light crackling sound floats above a field in northern Switzerland in late summer. Its source is invisible, tucked inside a dead, dried plant...
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