After recapturing the Eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus in April, the Syrian government has worked to retake a significant portion of formerly besieged rebel holdouts in the country.
The U.S. is the fourth most-worsened country on the 2018 Fragile State Index. Trump’s presidency embodies the country’s current political deadlock and instability, and is likely to impact this upcoming midterm elections.
Researchers analyzed the environmental impacts of replacing land-raised meat with farmed seafood to feed a burgeoning population and found aquaculture could preserve nearly 750 million hectares. But there could be nutritional tradeoffs.
Gisma Magara works with women in Juba’s camp for people who have fled South Sudan’s civil war. She tells her story to Sam Mednick.
Civilians residing in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp south of Damascus are caught in fierce fighting between government forces and ISIS militants, while being deprived of healthcare, food and medical supplies.
The latest Israeli airstrike on the T4 airbase and the possibility of Russia providing Damascus with an S-300 missile system have strained relations between Moscow and Tel Aviv. But these developments are unlikely to break down this strategic partnership or spark further escalation.
To mark World Intellectual Property Day, we meet a group of women basket weavers in Kenya’s Taita Taveta County who turned a pastime into a livelihood by building a brand and protecting their work.
Uganda has lifted a ban on its citizens going to Saudi Arabia and Jordan as domestic workers. But human rights groups say abuse is still rife.
From apps that tell women the police’s obligations in rape investigations to classes that teach internet literacy, Kenyan developers offer women tech-based solutions to help them understand and fight for their rights.
Scientists recalculated historical catch data to find that bottom trawlers that scrape the seafloor with huge nets may be killing far more fish – and destroying more habitats – than previously thought.
In the wake of the 2015 Gold Mine King spill, the Colorado legislature is considering a bill that aims to ensure better water quality at mines and more financial accountability from companies.
A look at how five years of siege, increased airstrikes, a fierce ground operation, a string of evacuation deals and a suspected chemical attack led to the fall of the rebel stronghold in the Damascus suburbs.
Heavier girls are deemed more beautiful and likelier to find a good husband in the West African country.
Environmentalists in Mexico have fought the recent relocation of a coral reef to make way for bigger ships in the Port of Veracruz. They worry about the ecosystem impacts of the port expansion and the precedent it sets for uprooting corals.
A comprehensive nutrition response has been stalled by a lack of data on the scale of the problem and ongoing political crises in Colombia that are dominating that government’s agenda.
A comprehensive nutrition response has been stalled by a lack of data on the scale of the problem and ongoing political crises in Colombia that are dominating that government’s agenda.
After years working in a Phnom Penh garment factory, where she made little money and had to ask permission to go to the bathroom, Hab Saly returned home to start her own sewing workshop and help other women escape the lonely, grinding life of a factory worker.
There’s just one bottleneck to better real-time data about the organisms at the base of the ocean food chain – the artificial intelligence needed to process all of it.
After 20 years of drought conditions, some scientists are calling for better terminology to describe the impact of rising temperatures in the region.
Scientists in Australia have documented how the composition of coral species affects the survival of fish populations following bleaching events. As small fish key to coral health disappear, reefs’ resilience to future catastrophes could decline.
Stretches of the Middle Rio Grande in New Mexico sometimes run dry during hot summer months, but this year biologists are trying to rescue stranded fish in early April – something that’s unprecedented.
Residents and scientists are working to cull urchins that ravage environmentally important kelp ecosystems. But experience shows that once urchins take over, restoration is difficult and may become even harder as the ocean warms.
Construction has begun in the Basateen el-Razi district in southwestern Damascus, under a government development plan. Experts warn though that construction efforts are not geared towards repair and recovery.
An estimated 550,000 Palestinian refugees registered in Syria are now facing secondary displacement due to the conflict, and many of them are facing deteriorating conditions and a protection gap in host countries, writes humanitarian expert Hanan Elbadawi.
New research by Transparency International looking at the prevalence of land corruption in Africa finds the practice disproportionately affects women, and calls for innovative responses to tackle the problem.
Women in the Philippines have often struggled to get loans from banks to start their social enterprises. But impact investors around the world are stepping up to fill that gap.
Watamu is a popular tourist town that has had to organize a collective effort to keep its beaches and ocean clean. However, there are limits to what it can do about a global problem.
In California’s Napa Valley, voters in June will decide on a ballot initiative aimed at protecting the region’s remaining oak woodlands, which support healthy watersheds. But vintners and farmers are calling the plan anti-agriculture.
A persistent lack of awareness about the dangers of malnutrition among patients is contributing to higher mortality rates and longer hospital stays.
March precipitation gave California a much-needed boost, but the state is still well below average in snowpack and climate impacts are already apparent, say experts.
The Northern California city suffered one of the deadliest fires in state history. In the aftermath, it now confronts a costly pollution problem likely caused when melted plastic pipes released chemicals into the water supply.
Plastics entering coastal waters both absorb and release cadmium, lead and other toxic metals. Scientists are now trying to determine the impact of metal-contaminated plastic on marine life and ocean ecosystems.
The European Space Agency is developing technology to allow satellites to identify the concentration, movement and origin of plastic debris across the world’s oceans.
At the Commission on the Status of Women this year, civil society won key gains in the in the Agreed Conclusions adopted by Member States. We examine their role in its development.
In this installment of our series of diaries from Syrian care providers, Abdullah, a psychosocial community health worker with a local partner of the International Rescue Committee in Idlib, discusses his work helping families cope with depression and other mental health issues that are rampant across the city.
The World Bank has found that the majority of the world’s countries restrict women economically in some way, with 104 countries preventing women from doing the same work as men.
For the tens of thousands of evacuees from the East Ghouta suburbs of Damascus, the road from the opposition enclave to Idlib was fraught with challenges. Reaching the northern province, however, has done little to ease their fears and concerns.
Scientists have identified a ‘biogeographic boundary’ for commercially valuable marine animals in the northwest Atlantic that divides genetically distinct populations of the same species. As temperatures rise, that dividing line is moving north.
Highlights from a closing session, organized by NGO CSW/NY and News Deeply, on the outcomes of the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women and takeaways for implementation and inclusion.
So-called reconciliation deals have become a coercive tool for the Syrian government to reclaim areas that have fallen outside its control, writes lawyer and researcher Marika Sosnowski.
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