How Households Increased Food Waste is Feeding Climate Change
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 04 (IPS) – Twenty percent of all food bought by households, retailers, restaurants and other food services in 54 countries around...
International Women’s Day, 2021 – The World Not Only Needs Women Leaders – It Needs Feminist Leaders
International Women’s Day, 2021 – The World Not Only Needs Women Leaders – It Needs Feminist Leaders
PARIS and REYKJAVIK, Mar 05 (IPS) – International Women’s Day pays tribute to the achievements of women worldwide and reminds us what still needs...
International Women’s Day, 2021 – Women’s Leadership Must Drive the Global Recovery from COVID-19
DUBLIN, Mar 05 (IPS) – International Women’s Day is always an occasion to celebrate strong women and an important day in the global calendar...
Drilling Wells to Alleviate the Water Shortage in the Venezuelan Capital
CARACAS, Mar 04 (IPS) – Thousands of families in the Venezuelan capital have dipped into their savings or gone into debt, in the midst...
Most pro athletes who got COVID-19 didn’t develop heart inflammation
Most professional athletes who got COVID-19 didn’t suffer heart damage from it, a new study suggests. Researchers screened 789 players who had tested positive...
Female green tree frogs have noise-canceling lungs that help them hear mates
To find her mate amidst a cacophony of frog croaks, groans, squeaks and trills, a female green tree frog just needs to take a...
Catnip repels insects. Scientists may have finally found out how
A whiff of catnip can make mosquitoes buzz off, and now researchers know why. The active component of catnip (Nepeta cataria) repels insects by...
IBADAN, Nigeria, Mar 04 (IPS) – The following opinion piece is part of series to mark the upcoming International Women’s Day March 8.Africa’s population...
50 years ago, U.S. commercial whaling was coming to an end
Whale protection — Science News, March 6, 1971 Whaling by the single remaining United States whaling firm, the Del Monte Fishing Co. of San...
DNA databases are too white, so genetics doesn’t help everyone. How do we fix that?
It’s been two decades since the Human Genome Project first unveiled a rough draft of our genetic instruction book. The promise of that medical...
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