In Myanmar, international action is needed urgently to prevent “mass deaths” there, after civilians fled attacks by so-called “junta bombs”, a top independent UN...
Scream of the World: Volcanos and Earthquakes
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jun 09 (IPS) – In February the killing of the Italian ambassador, Luca Attanasio, in the vicinity of the Virunga National...
ROME, Jun 09 (IPS) – Zoltán Kálmán is Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the UN Food and Agriculture Agencies in RomeIn three cycles...
Damage to Coral Reefs Hurts Fishing Communities in Central America
LOS CÓBANOS, El Salvador, Jun 09 (IPS) – As fisherman Luis Morán walked towards his small boat, which was floating in the water a...
Solving mysteries of reproduction helped make parenthood possible for millions
In the beginning, no one really understood how babies were made. Thinkers puzzled for millennia about how life arose from one generation to the...
A deep look at a speck of human brain reveals never-before-seen quirks
A new view of the human brain shows its cellular residents in all their wild and weird glory. The map, drawn from a tiny...
The 21st Century Nuclear Arms Race
NEW YORK, Jun 09 (IPS) – A new report by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)—focusing on nuclear weapons spending—following on the...
The mere sight of illness may kick-start a canary’s immune system
For canaries, just seeing their feathered friends get sick may be enough to preemptively rev up their immune systems. Healthy birds housed within view...
UNICEF and celebrities appeal to G7 countries: Donate COVID vaccinations ‘now’
From David Beckham to Whoopi Goldberg and Angelique Kidjo, Ambassadors for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and other agencies, have signed an open letter...
António Guterres nominated by Security Council for second term as UN chief
The Security Council has formally selected the current Secretary-General António Guterres as its nominee to serve a second five-year term in the UN’s top job. Read...
Light is hard to block from every direction. This physicist found a way 
Egypt: Fact-checking site’s entire newsroom jailed as assault on press freedom widens 
Nearly 64,000 flee Nigeria for Niger where a humanitarian crisis is deepening 
Ebola: IOM urges wider surveillance beyond formal routes in DR Congo