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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The students and the common people of Bangladesh dared to do something in 36 days of July-August that was considered simply ...

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

When ministers and government officials meet at the end of this year for a critical U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, they should bear in mind that the mortality rate for women during ...

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 ...

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 ...