Natural Enemies: How Mango Farmers are Tackling an Invasive Fruit Fly Pest
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Feb 23 (IPS) – As the climate warms, a destructive pest is spreading its wings and damaging the livelihoods of fruit growers...
Is the USA Fit to Rejoin the UN Human Rights Council?
TORONTO, Canada, Feb 24 (IPS) – A month into Joe Biden’s presidency, the U.S. has rejoined nearly all the multilateral institutions and international commitments...
Mexico to Ban Glyphosate, GM Corn Presidential Decree Comes Despite Intense Pressure from Industry, U.S. Authorities
CAMBRIDGE MA, Feb 24 (IPS) – Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador quietly rocked the agribusiness world with his New Year’s Eve decree to...
Cuba Prioritises Sustainable Water Management in the Face of Climate Challenges
HAVANA, Feb 23 (IPS) – With the construction of aqueducts, water purification and desalination plants, and investments to upgrade hydraulic infrastructure, Cuba is seeking...
Myanmar: Heroes and Villains
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Feb 23 (IPS) – Myanmar’s State Counsellor was recently deposed and arrested along with other leaders of her ruling party –...
A mountain lizard in Peru broke the reptilian altitude record
High in the Peruvian Andes, a lizard has claimed the title of world’s highest altitude reptile. The lizard was spotted as high as 5,400...
How 5 universities tried to handle COVID-19 on campus
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, we know the SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads easily through large indoor gatherings and communal living spaces. A person can...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 23 (IPS) – The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is adversely impacting most developing countries disproportionately, especially the United Nations’ least...
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...
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