Successful Crop Innovation Is Mitigating Climate Crisis Impact in Africa
IBADAN and MEXICO CITY, Feb 17 (IPS) – Martin Kropff, Director General, CIMMYT and Nteranya Sanginga, Director General, IITA17 February – African smallholder farmers...
NEW YORK, Feb 17 (IPS) – Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at NYU. He...
Here’s how to watch NASA’s Perseverance lander touch down on Mars
All eyes are on Mars — and all ears, too. When NASA’s Perseverance rover touches down on the Red Planet on February 18, the...
India Glacier Disaster: In a Warming World is there no Less Lethal Way to Power Development?
BHUBANESWAR, India, Feb 16 (IPS) – On Sunday morning, Feb. 7, as most of the working-class in India’s Himalayan State of Uttarakhand went about...
A rare bird sighting doesn’t lead to seeing more kinds of rare birds
It was a cold, overcast Saturday morning in Salem, Ore., when Jesse Laney set out to catch a glimpse of a painted bunting. He’d...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 16 (IPS) – Vaccine developers’ refusal to share publicly funded vaccine research findings is stalling broader, affordable vaccinations which...
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 16 (IPS) – Simone Galimberti is Co-Founder of ENGAGE, a not-for-profit NGO in Nepal. He writes on volunteerism, social inclusion, youth...
Making the UN Tax Committee More Effective for Developing Countries
GENEVA, Feb 16 (IPS) – The United Nations Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters (UN Tax Committee) is an important and...
A body burned inside a hut 20,000 years ago signaled shifting views of death
Middle Eastern hunter-gatherers changed their relationship with the dead nearly 20,000 years ago. Clues to that spiritual shift come from the discovery of an...
Modified genes can distort wild cotton’s interactions with insects
Cotton plants native to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula may all look the same — unkempt and untamed bushes with flowers that shift from pale yellow...
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