Climate change continues to pose an existential threat to humanity. Recent science estimates that we may have less than six ...

A small incident in the mounting mayhem of the 2024 elections crystalized the state of the dark art of politics in these ...

Despite being displaced three times, Bisan Okasha created Seeds of Resilience, a collaborative initiative designed to revive home gardens in Gaza.

BANGKOK, Thailand, Nov 7 2024 (IPS) - The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted in 1995 during the Fourth World Conference on Women, remains a cornerstone in the global pursuit of ...

Lack of water threatens the very existence of family farming in Chile, forcing farmers to adopt new techniques or to leave their land. The shortage is caused by a 15-year drought and exacerbated by ...

At the 2021 UN Climate Summit, Barbados prime minister Mia Mottley called for more and better use of special drawing rights ...

Nobody should be fooled by President Biden’s recent warning to Israel that the U.S. may level consequences if it doesn’t do ...

New institutional economics (NIE) has received another so-called Nobel prize, ostensibly for again claiming that good institutions and democratic governance ensure growth, development, equity and ...

Finance emerged as COP16's biggest issue. China formally announced that the Kunming Biodiversity Fund was now fully in operation.

Attacks on Lebanon over the past two months, as instigated by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have been increasingly indiscriminate. The Disaster Risk Management Unit at the Lebanese Council of ...

While the impact of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine on food system disruptions was widely covered, underlying food system vulnerabilities across Asia and the Pacific had been steadily growing long ...

During the pandemic, we learnt a new word – at least I did: comorbidity. It means that one or more additional conditions co-occur (all happen at the same time for a person) alongside a primary ...