Why Rehabilitation is as Vital as Rescue for Child Trafficking Survivors
SYDNEY, Australia, Mar 29 (IPS) – Twelve-year-old Babloo’s (Name changed) parents, who worked as daily wage agricultural labourers in the eastern Indian state of...
How kelp forests off California are responding to an urchin takeover
Joshua Smith has been diving in kelp forests in Monterey Bay along the central coast of California since 2012. Back then, he says, things...
Parents in Western countries report the highest levels of burnout
The ongoing pandemic has hammered parents. For many, work shifted to home. Schools closed or went partially remote in many places. Grandparents at high...
NEW YORK, Mar 29 (IPS) – Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Juan Somavia, Jeffrey Sachs, Jose Antonio Ocampo and more than 100 high-level development experts...
A Look at Colombian Coffee Prices One Year on From the Stabilization Fund
MEDELLIN, Colombia, Mar 26 (IPS) – It’s been just over a year since the Colombian government launched its landmark price stabilization fund. With a...
MEXICO CITY, Mar 26 (IPS) – A compilation of testimonies collected by Blanca Velázquez Díaz and published by the Ebert Foundation (available at: http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/mexiko/17328.pdf)...
After the Ever Given: What the Ship Wedged in the Suez Canal Means for Global Trade
Mar 26 (IPS) – In the early hours of March 23, the container ship Ever Given was blown off course by high winds on...
MEXICO CITY, Mar 26 (IPS) – In March 2014, Noemi N. took her own life inside a refuge camp in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, where...
The ‘USS Jellyfish’ emits strange radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster
Something’s fishy in the southern constellation Phoenix. Strange radio emissions from a distant galaxy cluster take the shape of a gigantic jellyfish, complete with...
A toxin behind mysterious eagle die-offs may have finally been found
Mysterious deaths of bald eagles, mallards and other lake life in the southeastern United States have puzzled scientists for more than 20 years. After...
COP17: The world has a plan to save nature. Is it working? 
Flour sacks turned flood barriers: Gaza faces another winter without safe shelter 
WHO scales up Ebola readiness in 22 countries across three continents 
Ukraine: Civilian casualty rates among ‘deadliest’ in years, as energy attacks intensify