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Record-breaking rainfall and flooding are increasingly threatening our ability to grow essential crops like wheat, soybeans, and maize. Credit: Shutterstock Opinion by Esther Ngumbi (urbana, illinois, us) Friday, August 09, 2024 Inter Press Service Record-breaking rain, flooding events, and other weather impacts people and our ability to grow crops successfully, including wheat, soybeans, maize, and vegetable crops such as tomatoes, which …

Ships await their turn to cross the Panama Canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: Emilio Godoy / IPS by Emilio Godoy (panama) Friday, August 09, 2024 Inter Press Service PANAMA, Aug 09 (IPS) – In 2021, the Panama Canal welcomed a French experimental ship on a world tour, the Energy Observer, the first electric vessel powered by a …

Opinion by Jamison Ervin, Anna Giulia Medri (united nations) Friday, August 09, 2024 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Aug 09 (IPS) – This year’s Equator Prize winners are the antidote we need in a world of crisis. Earlier this year, the World Economic Forum released its annual Risk Report. The key findings highlighted the inescapable trend over the past decade that …

The extreme heat adversely affected the milk production of the over 800,000 cattle in Karachi. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPS by Zofeen Ebrahim (karachi, pakistan) Friday, August 09, 2024 Inter Press Service KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 09 (IPS) – The over 20 million residents of Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, in Sindh province in particular, have been experiencing brutal heat since May. But they …

Living on 37 hectares of land, the people of Anuta in Solomon Islands depend entirely on their marine resources for survival. To adapt to climate change, they build sea walls that stop the incoming waves during cyclones or high swell, protecting their homes and outrigger fishing canoes, which are the most important asset on Anuta island. Credit: Zahiyd Namo/Solomon Islands …

Education Cannot Wait announces USD 2 million First Emergency Response Grant in Gaza. Credit: ECW by IPS Correspondent (johannesburg) Thursday, August 08, 2024 Inter Press Service JOHANNESBURG, Aug 08 (IPS) – Since October 2023, 625,000 children enrolled in schools across Gaza have had no access to education, and more than 370 schools have sustained damage from attacks, according to the United …

Women in Khardariya village in Dang fetching water from a community well. Credit: Tanka Dhakal/IPS by Tanka Dhakal (kathmandu) Wednesday, August 07, 2024 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, Aug 07 (IPS) – In the rural village of Khardariya in the Dang district of Nepal, access to clean water is a major issue. Villagers depend on one poorly managed well for drinking water, …

Two astronauts stranded in space for more than 60 days may have to keep orbiting the Earth until early 2025 … because their Boeing spacecraft appears unable to bring them home. NASA is now saying Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams may need to be rescued from the International Space Station by a spacecraft from a rival company … Elon Musk‘s …

Drought in Kenya’s Ewaso Ngiro river basin in 2017 when pastoralists had to dig for water because much of the river system in Isiolo county had dried up. Credit: Denis Onyodi/KRCS by Joyce Chimbi (nairobi) Wednesday, August 07, 2024 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Aug 07 (IPS) – Climate change-related extreme weather jeopardizes Kenya’s development agenda; even though it contributes very little …

A baby hangs on a scale during a community health check-up and vaccination in Akosombo in the Eastern Region, Ghana, on April 28, 2022. Credit: Gavi/2022/Nipah Dennis Opinion by Afshan Khan, Sania Nishtar (geneva) Wednesday, August 07, 2024 Inter Press Service GENEVA, Aug 07 (IPS) – From 11-year-old Chinese skateboarder Zheng Haohao to 16-year-old American gymnast Hezly Rivera, several children have …