NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 18 2024 (IPS) - The 29th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP29) currently underway in Baku, ...

When the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, orbited the Earth in 1963, there were only three active Earth ...

In Benin, college graduates struggle to find formalized work. Educated young people find themselves involved in hustle ...

CABACEIRAS, Brazil, Nov 11 2024 (IPS) - The small community of Ribeira stands out in the Northeast, the poorest region of ...

The year 2024 is on track to be the warmest year on record, contributed by an extended streak of high monthly global mean temperatures.

For religious, humanitarian, and scientific reasons, Israel’s increasingly apparent plan for the de facto colonization of the ...

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

So extreme are gender inequalities in South Sudan that a young girl is three times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than to reach the eighth grade – the last grade before high school – ...

The currently available Covid-19 vaccines have been authorized for ‘emergency use ‘in Europe and North America. This is due to an apparent spike in Covid-19 flu cases in the northern hemisphere as ...

“It has gotten really tough for us,” says James, a father in rural Liberia, of COVID-19 lockdown and school closures. “My son is trying but he is missing his friends and teachers. Children want to be ...

Twenty-seven years after South Africa’s first democratic elections, the country finds itself reflecting on the catalysts of a week of looting and destruction of property resulting in more than 200 ...

Nuclear weapons are once again high on the international agenda, and experts note that the risk of a nuclear detonation is the highest since the Cold War.