Armenians from Nagorno Karabakh on September 25, departing from the besieged enclave. Virtually the entire population has fled for fear of violence by Azerbaijani forces. Credit: Gaiane Yenokian/IPS By Gaiane YenokianTEGH, Armenia, Nov 8 2023 (IPS) From the balcony of the house she’s lived in for the past weeks, 32-year-old […]

photo: Pixabay/Bergadder Earth’s boreal forests circle our planet’s far northern reaches, just south of the Arctic’s treeless tundra. If the planet wears an Arctic ice cap, then the boreal forests are a loose-knit headband wrapped around its ears, covering large portions of Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia. The boreal region’s soils have […]

Community Efforts Boost Wastewater Treatment in El Salvador By Edgardo AyalaCHIRILAGUA, El Salvador, Nov 7 2023 (IPS) Neither the central government nor most of El Salvador’s 262 municipalities have had the capacity to install enough wastewater treatment plants to prevent it from being discharged directly into the environment. As a […]

Countries: Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees The war that erupted without warning turned previously peaceful Sudanese homes into cemeteries. Now, fighting is growing in scope and brutality, affecting the people of Sudan, and the world is silent.