The Maasa are among Kenya’s pastoralist communities, particularly vulnerable to trachoma. The dusty environment they inhabit ...

Gang violence has ravaged Haiti, causing thousands of civilian deaths, displacements, and violations of international ...

BAKU, Nov 12 2024 (IPS) - Scientists warn of vastly higher impacts on billions of people’s livelihood and cost to the global ...

UNEP's Head of Impact Assessment and Adaptation, Henry Neufeldt, has called for increased climate adaptation funding, ...

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

DELHI, Nov 11 2024 (IPS) - “Farming is in my blood, and I can’t imagine doing anything else,” said Mahim Mazumder, a farmer from Assam. “Even though the past three to five years have seen drastic ...

As a result of over two weeks of Israeli bombardment, thousands of Palestinian civilians have fled their homes in the north of Gaza and sought refuge in schools run by the UNRWA, the U.N. agency for ...

On the day following the US election, UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres issued a brief statement commending the people ...

The right to abortion is a human rights issue that no government agency, courts, local and state legislators, or anyone else has the right to violate or impede in any shape or form. It is a ...

Cities, once thought to be modern utopias that foster innovation, inclusivity, and commerce, actually ended up being hubs for environmental degradation. Although the concept of urban living is ...

Last month, over two thousand high-level participants from across the world met in Antalya, Turkey for the Midterm Review of the Istanbul Programme of Action, an action plan used to guide sustainable ...

The Yakima River runs southeast from the Cascade Mountains through central Washington state to merge with the Columbia a little north of Oregon. From the small city of Yakima on down, its course ...