To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Agenda 2063 aspirations, Africa requires an additional $1.3 – 1.6 ...

January 20 is celebrated as Martin Luther King Jr. Day. He was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement who fought for equality ...

On January 15, 2025, the long-awaited ceasefire proposal between Israel and Hamas was approved, bringing the first bout of relief for the people of the Gaza Strip after 15 months of conflict. This has ...

Perhaps one of the UN’s most ambitious and longstanding projects – the launching of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)– is aimed, among other things, at helping developing nations eradicate ...

Corporate-dominated food systems are responsible for widespread but still spreading malnutrition and ill health. Poor diets worsen non-communicable diseases (NCDs), now costing over eight trillion ...

Kashmir's ingenious climate-responsive architecture, developed during the 19th and early 20th centuries, withstands changes ...

The last few weeks of 2024 were a disappointment for those who strongly believed that planet Earth is in need of bold actions. First, there were the frustration stemming from what could be defined at ...

For dozens of female artisanal salt farmers in Pemba, salt production is both their livelihood and their struggle—a craft demanding patience and grit.

Adenike Oladosu is a leading Nigerian ecofeminist, climate justice leader and researcher. She was appointed as an ECW Global ...

The case of a man arrested in Texas, in the south of the United States, for shipping arms parts to Mexico immediately caught ...

Indigenous crops, rich in nutrition and resilient to climate change, are key to tackling global hunger if governments invest ...

Humanitarian aid operations in some places may become impossible, as a report shows a dramatic rise in the use of armed ...