Explainer: UN peace operations work to create, preserve peace
Supporting the first democratic elections after brutal civil wars in Mozambique and Cambodia. Disarming thousands of child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Helping to secure...
Red Sea nations step up maritime cooperation as regional threats grow
From piracy and migrant smuggling to disruptions affecting global shipping routes, countries bordering one of the world’s busiest waterways are seeking closer cooperation to...
Land models sprout as degradation threatens billions of livelihoods
Promising efforts to restore degraded land are now in the spotlight at a time when 40 per cent of the world’s land currently faces...
The Indian Ocean Is Sounding the Alarm and Its Islands Are Among the First to Hear It
VICTORIA, Seychelles, August 26 (IPS) – Across this vast ocean, the latest monitoring by Mercator Ocean International shows marine heatwave conditions ranging from moderate...
Monkeys hunt small animals when fruit is scarce
Capuchins hunt and eat small vertebrates more often as plant foods wane. The behavior may help us learn more about humans’ early dietary evolution.
Beyond the Horizon: Raising a Generation to Protect the Blue Pacific
SUVA, Fiji, August 26 (IPS) – For generations, Pacific children have grown up with the ocean as part of everyday life. It is where...
Once upon a time, insects had 24 legs
A many-legged oddball from long ago helps fill a major gap in the fossil record — and hints at how insects ended up with...
Microbes might get freeze-dried on the moon’s south pole
Artemis IV will put people on the moon’s surface for the first time in 50 years. NASA research reveals the microbes that might hitch...
Land degradation is costing far more than restoring: UN deputy chief
Countries are spending too little to restore degraded land even as the economic cost of doing nothing climbs towards $1 trillion a year, UN...
Rohingyas in Myanmar suffering ‘heartbreaking’ misery and cruelty
Members of the minority ethnic Rohingya Muslim group in Myanmar are “suffering, misery, and cruelty on multiple levels and across the country that is...
Families in Desperate Search for Victims of the ‘Himalayan Tsunami’ in Nepal 
New Hubble images reveal a bizarre decagon over Saturn’s south pole 
‘Fight for humanity’: Avoiding a climate catastrophe means acting now 
Sudan: Air attack destroys food aid for families in South Kordofan