Under Water: The EPA’s Struggle to Combat Pollution
Water and sediment sampling operations during Enbridge Spill Response on Morrow Lake near Battle Creek, Michigan from Mudpuppy II, EPA's...
Month: September 2024
Against All the Odds: Maternity and Mortality in Afghanistan
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says Afghanistan is “one of the riskiest places to be a pregnant woman or a young...
Why Our Food Systems Need to Be More Nutrition-Smart
Dr. Howarth Bouis is Director of HarvestPlus and heads a global research programme that develops and disseminates nutrient-rich staple foods...
Humanity’s Future: Below Replacement Fertility?
Joseph Chamie is a former director of the United Nations Population Division.A mother and her three children, part of the...
Despite U.N. Treaties, War Against Drugs a Losing Battle
Less than eight per cent of drug users worldwide have access to a clean syringe programme. Credit: Fahim Siddiqi/IPSUNITED NATIONS,...
Opinion: A Major Push Forward for Gender and Environment
Joni Seager is a Professor at Bentley University, Deepa Joshi is an Assistant Professor at Wageningen University and Rebecca Pearl-Martinez...
Opinion: Let’s End Chronic Hunger
Jomo Kwame Sundaram is the Coordinator for Economic and Social Development at the Food and Agriculture Organization and received the...
Clean Water Another Victim of Syria’s War
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has trebled the volume of emergency supplies trucked into Syria from 800,000 to 2.5...
TPP is “Worst Trade Agreement” for Medicine Access, Says Doctors Without Borders
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 7 2015 (IPS) - “The TPP will…go down in history as the worst trade agreement for access...
Family Planning in India is Still Deeply Sexist
Rural Indian women are under enormous pressure from family to not go in for any oral contraceptive method or injections...