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- Inter Press Service
UN to Launch Survey to Track Down Racism at the Secretariat
- Inter Press Service
Dollar System Eroding Slowly, but Still Dominant
- Mongabay
Chinook salmon return to historical habitat following removal of four US dams
- Global Voices
What African elections can learn from the Borana Gadaa system
- Mongabay
Wildfires threaten Indonesia’s orangutans as rescuers find injured animals
- Devpolicy BlogEducation
PNG university students’ perception of PNG turning 50 years: future aspirations
- Inter Press Service
Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize Is a Vote of Confidence in a Global Legal Order under Fire
- Mongabay
Indigenous women bring leadership, creativity & joy to clean water action (commentary)
- Mongabay
First Nation-led effort replants kelp forests in Clayoquot Sound
- MongabayEnvironment & Climate
Researcher who listens to forests wins 2026 Pritzker Environmental Genius Award
- MongabayEnvironment & Climate
Oil pollution is drifting into marine protected areas, report finds
- Mongabay
Indonesia says it no longer needs forests for rice. What happens to projects underway?
- UN NewsHealth & Medical
General Assembly adopts pandemic declaration, but not by consensus
- UN News
Sudan: Drought and war push Darfur and Kordofan towards famine
- UN News
Security Council LIVE: Syria’s fragile transition – economic strain, Israeli incursions and progress towards elections
- UN News
Colombia peace deal must endure as insecurity grows, Security Council hears
- UN NewsProtection & Human Rights
‘Efficiency has limits’: UNHCR chief warns refugee protection is buckling under cuts
- UN News
UN aid operation underway in Nepal following fresh floods
- UN News
Rise in poverty is ‘a wake-up call for the world’, UN development chief says
- MongabayEnergy & Infrastructure
As Colombo heats up, passive cooling offers a low-energy solution — but at a cost
- Mongabay
Community action to protect Cambodia’s seas: Interview with commune leader Sorn Srenh
- Inter Press ServiceEducation
How Nepal is Learning To Cope With the Psychological Toll of Its Missing
- Inter Press Service
Kazakhstan Has Spent 23 Years Bringing Faiths Together. Now Comes the Harder Part.
- MongabayHealth & Medical
Wildlife disease surveillance at global scale needs stronger local networks: Study
- Global VoicesMigration & Refugees
Bangladesh-Malaysia recruitment reforms revive old questions over the cost of migration
- Mongabay
Damming the Xingu
- Mongabay
This is a South African cheetah, and it’s in trouble
- Devpolicy BlogProtection & Human Rights
Social protection steps up: how Pacific governments are cushioning the fuel price shock
- Devpolicy BlogProtection & Human Rights
Social protection steps up: how Pacific governments are cushioning the fuel price shock
- Devpolicy BlogEducation
PNG university students’ perception of PNG turning 50 years: future aspirations (part I)
- Global Voices
When free speech has a price: Youth voices in Mozambique
- UN News
‘These attacks must cease immediately’: Guterres condemns deadly Houthi strike on Riyadh airport
- UN NewsEconomic Development & Trade
Sustaining livelihoods amid crisis in Gaza
- UN News
Djibouti shipwreck: Death toll rises to 139 as 84 remain missing
- The Guardian — Global developmentEconomic Development & Trade
Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment
- UN News
UN chief ‘gravely concerned’ by renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia, warns against escalation
- UN News
In the Mekong Delta, a push to grow food with saltwater
- UN News
India: UN rights office urges release of ‘arbitrarily detained’ protesters
- UN News
Giving a dam: Cultivating peace in Côte d’Ivoire
- The Guardian — Global development
Tourism expansion v turtle nests: the dispute dividing communities in one Tobago resort
- Mongabay
These women are bringing Darwin’s rheas back to Chilean Patagonia
- Global Voices
How Ecuador is fighting to keep industrial trans fats off the food shelf
- MongabayGovernance & Rule of Law
Paraguay meets UN deadline for improving governance in Chaco Biosphere Reserve
- Mongabay
Brazilian ranchers block government officials from demarcating Indigenous land
- Mongabay
Painted wind turbines can dramatically reduce bird deaths, study finds
- Global VoicesEconomic Development & Trade
Trump’s ‘Agreements on Reciprocal Trade’ (ARTs) threaten equitable access to the internet in Global South
- Inter Press ServiceHealth & Medical
UNICEF Warns Impending El Niño Threatens Education, Health, and Safety for Millions
- Mongabay
Sri Lanka elephant found with a gunshot wound. How can tuskers be protected?
- Mongabay
In Ecuador, Indigenous youth turn to rap music to defend the Amazon
- Mongabay
Vietnam mobilizes troops after heavy rains trigger flash floods and raise risks of landslides
- MongabayGovernance & Rule of Law
Lawmakers in Suriname call for investigation, stricter oversight amid new mining activity
- Inter Press Service
Tanzania’s Biggest City Bets on Elevated Bridge to Dodge Chronic Flooding
- Mongabay
A chemical kept fishmeal from catching fire. Then scientists raised cancer concerns
- MongabayEnvironment & Climate
For Indian communities, fishmeal factories bring pollution, danger and protests
- Mongabay
Fishmeal factories take Senegal’s fish from the dinner table
- Mongabay
A lifetime studying and advocating for cetaceans: Interview with Paul Spong
- UN NewsEconomic Development & Trade
Global trade reaches record $35 trillion despite conflicts
- UN News
World News in Brief: ‘Horrific’ attack in Sudan, Israeli incursions in Syria intensify, most women and girls homeless in Gaza
- UN NewsHumanitarian & Emergency
Security Council LIVE: Emergency meeting as Russia launches deadly wave of attacks on Ukraine
- UN News
Livestreaming US execution would breach prohibition of torture, UN rights office warns
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