On the morning of August 26, an unprecedented series of flash floods struck Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, causing immense destruction, killing hundreds of civilians and leaving ...

Writing from Evin Prison, Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi, who remains under a death sentence, reflects on her ...

Population age structures vary widely across countries, shaping population growth, migration, labor markets, healthcare and ...

Across the vast steppe of northeastern Kazakhstan, the scars of the Cold War remain visible. At the Semipalatinsk Nuclear ...

In 2024, Kurdish social worker Pakhshan Azizi was sentenced to death. She remains incarcerated in Evin Prison, Tehran, Iran.

At the UN desertification summit in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, governments backed a $1.2 billion programme to restore rangelands.

Bangladesh’s riverine and coastal chars have always been landscapes of movement, but climate change is making that movement ...

As the global HIV response shifts toward sustainable, nationally led, and rights-based care, a new UNAIDS framework published ...

A massive geophysical disaster along the mountainous Nepal-Tibet border has left at least 160 people dead and hundreds more ...

There is a saying that people protect what they love, and to love something, you first need to understand it. — Hannah Nanovu, Whole School Ocean Coordinator, International School Suva SUVA, Fiji, Aug ...

US Midwest flooding is threatening agriculture, crop yields, farm incomes and food security, exposing gaps in policies ...

KAKAMEGA, Kenya, Apr 1 2026 (IPS) - They call this land Bushiangala. Gold has been mined here for nearly a century. In 1931, colonial prospectors arrived after traces were found in the nearby Yala ...