A bone-dry part of the River Niger at Mopti, a major town in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Mali. Credit: UN Photo/John Isaac By Retno Marsudi and Musonda MumbaUNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 2025 – Water emergencies are deeply personal to us. Coming from Southeast Asia and southern Africa—two regions that struggle with water challenges—we have witnessed firsthand how water defines the fate of communities...

Credit: Raquel Cunha/Reuters via Gallo Images By Inés M. PousadelaMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Apr 28 2025 – They found shoes, hundreds of them, scattered across the dirt floor of an extermination camp in Jalisco state. These abandoned shoes, once belonging to someone’s child, parent or spouse, stand as silent witnesses to Mexico’s deepest national trauma. Alongside charred human remains and makeshift...

Credit: Federation of American Scientists (FAS) By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Apr 28 2025 – The Trump administration’s hostile attitude towards Western Europe—and the threat to pullout of the 32-member military alliance, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – signifies the danger of losing the longstanding protection of the US nuclear umbrella over Europe. Jana Puglierin, director...

“As the son of a haenyeo, a traditional Korean female diver, I grew up by the sea, often watching the ocean with my mother. Captivated by the beauty and majesty of the sea, I chose to study marine science and have devoted my entire career to the ocean,” said Do-hyung Kang, Minister of the Ministry […]