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Threatened By Militias And Traffickers, Mali's Desert Elephants Could Be Extinct In 3 Years

In 2012, poachers began targeting the Gourma elephants. Now, in the face of ongoing political instability — armed militias and traffickers in arms and drugs &mda...

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Bring On The Girls

Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl was a publishing sensation and made legit the dysfunctional ‘girl’.

Paula Hawkins’s debut novel, The Girl On The T...

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Food Production Shocks 'Will Happen More Often Because Of Extreme Weather'

Major ?shocks? to global food production will be three times more likely within 25 years because of an increase in extreme weather brought about by global warming, warns a ...

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Climate Pressures Threaten Political Stability: Security Experts

But work now to protect food security, reshape water sharing agreements and cut risks from worsening weather disasters could play a huge role in reducing future conflict, r...

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Doing much with little

Despite limited resources and political instability, Nepal is doing well on health, social indicators.

Recently, on April 10, India?? The Hindu published an artic...

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Climate change could see rise of violent conflict in India, warns new report

A new report from the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University warns that India is vulnerable to ?climate conflict?, due to climate change having an impa...

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Climate change ‘single biggest hindrance’ to human development

The recently released Human Development Report has identified six major threats to human development and proposed a set of policies and reforms to address these vulnerabili...

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India can increase GDP by more than a quarter by giving more women jobs

The rate of India’s female graduates entering the workforce is lower than the rate of illiterate women finding a job. India ranks the second lowest in the Group of 20...

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Huge Lake-Effect Snow Expected

As bitter Arctic air continues to spill east, temperatures will plummet to below 0 over the Tug Hill plateau through the overnight hours. Factoring in the winds, it will fe...

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With over 400 people being rescued just south of Sicily in 2 days, the Mediterranean Migrant Crisis is worse than it has ever been, with government officials going as far as to call the Mediterranean a ‘cemetery’

Italy and Malta pressed European partners on Saturday to do more to stop a migrant crisis which the Maltese prime minister said was turning the Mediterranean into a “...

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