How Technology Can Promote Multilingualism & How it Cannot
GENEVA, Feb 23 (IPS) – Ian Richards is a UN economist, staff representative and is fluent in two UN languages; Mohammed Chiraz Baly is...
Coup in Spain, Yesterday and Today
MIAMI, Feb 22 (IPS) – Forty years ago, on February 23, 1981 (later known as 23-F), in the middle of the afternoon in a...
Watch real video of Perseverance’s Mars landing
This is what it looks like to land on Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover took this video on February 18 as a jetpack lowered it...
The first human genetic blueprint just turned 20. What’s next?
As the master blueprint for building humans turns 20, researchers are both celebrating the landmark achievement and looking for ways to bolster its shortcomings....
Q&A: UN Environment Assembly Kicks Off With a Call to Make Peace with Nature
NAIROBI, Feb 22 (IPS) – IPS interviews JOYCE MSUYA, the Deputy Executive Director for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), to find out what to...
Is This The End of Myanmars Quasi-Democracy?
NEW DELHI, India, Feb 22 (IPS) – On February 1st, 2021 the military of Myanmar overthrew the country’s democratic government in a coup d’etat...
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 (IPS) – Ramu Damodaran is Chief, United Nations Academic ImpactLegends are the lodestars of history, the marriage of Sir Dorabji...
The Boon and Bane of LDC Graduation: The Bangladesh Experience
SINGAPORE, Feb 22 (IPS) – Bangladeshis at the present time share a modicum of justifiable pride in the fact that the world merits this...
Sustainable Energy Key to COVID-19 Recovery in Asia and the Pacific
BANGKOK, Thailand, Feb 22 (IPS) – The past year is one that few of us will forget. While the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Signs of a hidden Planet Nine in the solar system may not hold up
Planet Nine might be a mirage. What once looked like evidence for a massive planet hiding at the solar system’s edge may be an...
Coordinated action on clean air and climate change can net $15 for every dollar spent 
Human rights chief Türk renews call for end to spiralling Sudan war 
AI: Türk urges action before it becomes an ‘existential risk to humanity’ 
UNGA 81: A United Nations at a Turning Point