The world’s farmers produce enough food to feed more than the global population. Yet around 733 million people are facing ...

The future seems virtually bleak, particularly if current trends continue, when over 582 million people will be chronically ...

BALTIMORE, Maryland USA, Oct 14 2024 (IPS) - World Food Day seems like it should be a time to celebrate. A day to eat ...

The Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave recently generated international discussion about the barbarity of slavery, but it is not alone in the attempt to break the silence around the 400 years of the ...

Since late August, severe flash floods and monsoons plaguing Bangladesh have affected nearly 6 million people. Bangladeshi officials have declared the floods to be the country’s worst climate disaster ...

Brazil is counting on biofuels to assert itself as an energy powerhouse in the near future, as a decisive supplier of low-carbon jet fuel, a requirement of the climate crisis. The electrification of ...

It is almost universally acknowledged that Pakistan emerged a separate state in 1947 primarily on the basis of religion. Yes, an Islamic state, but isn’t history rather murky on the question of ...

High up in the eucalyptus-strewn Entoto Mountains, which overlook the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, work is nearly complete on the country’s first observatory. Studying the stars and the galaxies ...

As foreign donors drag their feet on injecting badly needed cash into the government’s coffers, local analysts are increasingly worried that this will affect implementation of key development projects ...

Almost every rainy season the floodgates of Kariba Dam have to be opened to relieve pressure on the dam wall. But despite warnings not to live or farm on the river banks of the Zambezi River ...

Over the past few months, Pakistan has been grappling with a persistent and disruptive internet slowdown, leaving millions of ...

How will Israel respond to Iran’s recent ballistic missiles barrage? “Strategic patience” is the best course. Israel has its ...