Chemists are reimagining recycling to keep plastics out of landfills
Recycling plastics is really hard, and usually creates low-quality materials that aren’t good for much. Chemists are trying to change that.
Diamond holds up at pressures more than five times those in Earth’s core
Even when pummeled with lasers, diamond retains its structure, which could reveal how carbon behaves in the cores of some exoplanets.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 26 (IPS) – Current development fads fetishize data, ostensibly for ‘evidence-based policy-making’: if not measured, it will not matter. So,...
International Partnership Helps Mongolia Counter Climate Change
BHUBANESWAR, India, Jan 26 (IPS) – Climate warming is believed to have taken place at some of the fastest rates in the world in...
Global Economic Recovery Remains Precarious in post-COVID-19 Years
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 26 (IPS) – The United Nations has warned that the devastating socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt for...
TORONTO, Canada, Jan 26 (IPS) – The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all ages. The main...
We are Facing a Climate Emergency, Warns UN Chief
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 26 (IPS) – Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in an address to the Climate Adaptation SummitWe begin this...
What Worlds Largest Climate Change Public Opinion Poll Says
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 (IPS) – A University of Oxford/UNDP initiative, the survey results span 50 countries, which cover more than half of the...
COVID-19s Social & Economic Fallout Hits Women Harder
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 27 (IPS) – With over 90 million confirmed cases and 1.9 million deaths globally, and a second wave sweeping into 2021,...
An American Horror story
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jan 27 (IPS) – Occasionally some of us might suffer from a feeling of maximal overload, overwhelmed by COVID-19 and the...
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