Romina Khurshid Alam, Coordinator to the PM of Pakistan on Climate Change, praised the resilience of her people in the face ...

Delegates representing Indigenous people’s rights have taken issue with the ongoing COP29 negotiations, calling promotion of ...

Hitmi, Director of the Climate Change Department at the Government of Qatar, highlighted the nation’s ambitious goals.

Last April, we commemorated the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. At the Rwandan capital, Kigali, ...

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

BAKU, Nov 15 2024 (IPS) - The United States just went through its most consequential election. While the outcome raises questions about what the re-election of Trump means for U.S. engagement in ...

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

In the hustle and bustle of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, a small learning centre located in the Bang Bon district is helping children hailing mostly from the war-torn provinces of Myanmar (Burma) gain ...

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

A year after the Gezi Park uprising – a protest that began as an act to save trees – exploded into anti-government riots around the country, sparking cohesive community efforts to fight urban sprawl, ...

Three years have elapsed since the collapse of Rana Plaza, Savar, on a fine morning of April 24, 2013. The disaster, one of the deadliest in the world's industrial history in two centuries, claimed ...