Category Misc

[ ] The Imja river in Khumbu region with village in the left, these rivers could experience floods if a GLOF happened. Credit: Tanka Dhakal/IPS by Tanka Dhakal (kathmandu) Tuesday, May 28, 2024 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, May 28 (IPS) –…

[ ] 10:40 AM President of the General Assembly Dennis Francis – who hails from the nearby Caribbean State Trinidad and Tobago – said the long-awaited SIDS4 conference “offers a powerful once in a decade platform” for action, under the…

[ ] “Information coming out of Rafah about further attacks on families seeking shelter is horrifying,” the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said in a post on X, after reports of an Israeli military strike on a tented camp…

[ ] A still shot of Robert Wilson’s Star and Stone: a kind of love…some say, picture by AM/SWAN by SWAN – Southern World Arts News (normandy, france) Monday, May 27, 2024 Inter Press Service NORMANDY, France, May 27 (IPS) –…

[ ] King Charles III of Britain addresses the opening ceremony of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States, May 27, 2024. Credit: Alison Kentish/IPS by Alison Kentish (antigua) Monday, May 27, 2024 Inter Press Service ANTIGUA, May 27…

[ ] The SIDS Global Children and Youth Action Summit taking place this weekend on the University of the West Indies campus of the beautiful island nation of Antigua and Barbuda, which is hosting SIDS4, bonded together 80 or so…

[ ] In a media interview, Mr. Aktoprak said that the community in Yambali village, situated at the foot of a mountain in the remote Enga Province, is buried under between six to eight metres of soil. 150 houses are…

[ ] Nature-based solutions in Malawi give the country opportunities to contribute to the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere while also generating money. Credit: Charles Mpaka/IPS by Charles Mpaka (blantyre, malawi) Monday, May 27, 2024 Inter Press Service BLANTYRE,…

[ ] Opinion by Julia Conley (new york) Monday, May 27, 2024 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, May 27 (IPS) – A widely respected humanitarian law expert who has resisted using the term “genocide” for Israel’s killing of tens of thousands…

[ ] Kenya is home to the world’s first-ever blue carbon initiative that sold carbon credits from mangrove conservation along its vast coastline. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Monday, May 27, 2024 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, May 27 (IPS)…