Dr Rijan Bhakta Kayastha says the August 26 disaster started when a massive chunk of glacier gave way at altitudes of about 5,200 to 1,200 m.

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 4 2026 (IPS) - While Uganda announced the end of its Ebola outbreak last week, the Democratic Republic of ...

It remembers that the reef and the child, the mangrove and the fisherman, the albatross and the sailor, are all verses of the ...

With El Niño confirmed by the WMO the adoption of climate-smart agriculture techniques and crops is even more urgent.

UNICEF finds that approximately 1 in 5 of all children surveyed reported facing tech-facilitated sexual abuse.

As leaders gather in Kigali for the Africa Food Systems Forum, CGIAR’s Ismahane Elouafi argues that Africa must connect ...

After her husband went missing in a flood in Nepal, Mingma Tamang has spent each day searching hospitals' emergency wards to find him.

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

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

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 ...