TORONTO, Canada, Jun 03 (IPS) – This week*, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is expected to endorse recommendations on agroecological and other...
Child Marriage and Domestic Violence: What We Found in 16 African Countries
NAIROBI, Jun 03 (IPS) – The number of girls who marry before their 15th birthday has remained unchanged for 20 years in most countries...
50 years ago, scientists predicted steady U.S. population growth
Information outflow – Science News, June 5, 1971 The United States’ population is growing at a rate of one percent a year, and even...
Newly recognized tricks help elephants suck up huge amounts of water
Whether or not it’s possible to teach an old elephant new tricks, a 34-year-old pachyderm at Zoo Atlanta has recently taught researchers a thing...
Elderly people often have to give up cycling, due to a fear of injury, but Cycling Without Age, a movement which began in Denmark,...
NASA will be heading back to Venus for the first time in decades
Earth’s evil twin, here we come. NASA’s next two missions, named DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, are heading to Venus, administrator Bill Nelson announced at a...
We won’t allow corruption to continue unchecked: UN Assembly president
The effects of corruption are “detrimental to all of society”, the President of the UN General Assembly said on Wednesday during the first day...
Staggering health needs emerge in Gaza, following Israel-Hamas conflict
Senior UN health agency officials on Wednesday called for unhindered humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, citing growing concerns about urgent health needs there. ...
Invasive pest spread another fallout from climate change, UN-backed study finds
Climate change is making pests which ravage important agricultural crops even more destructive, heightening threats to global food security and the environment, a UN-backed...
After vaccinating 95 percent of adults, a Brazilian city is returning to normal
In Serrana, Brazil, schools are reopening and plans are under way for a large open-air concert. Health care workers suddenly have time for sit-down...
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