Like thousands of Palestinian farmers, he faces growing restrictions from Israeli forces and settlers, who have made the olive harvest season – running from September […]
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Famine in Gaza: ‘A failure of humanity itself’, says UN chief
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the results of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis were no mystery: “It is a man-made disaster, a […]
UN agencies warn of rising heat stress risks for workers worldwide
The new joint report, Climate change and workplace heat stress, underscores the mounting risks as climate change fuels longer, more extreme, and more frequent heatwaves. Stressing […]
NASA’s VEG-03 Experiment Grows Fresh Food for Future Missions
When the Crew-11 astronauts launched to the International Space Station on August 1, 2025, they carried with them another chapter in space farming: the latest […]
Peacekeepers find weapons trove in southern Lebanon, as drought threatens millions
On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, peacekeepers with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) discovered rocket launchers, rocket shells, mortar rounds, bomb fuses and […]
Gaza: Guterres urges probe into killing of journalists, as child malnutrition deaths rise
The reporters – five of whom worked for the Al Jazeera media network – were killed in a targeted Israeli strike in Gaza City the previous […]
From crisis to cultivation: Haiti’s farmers build resilience one seed at a time
Instead of having seeds which sprout reliably, farmers contend with batches which may grow only 40 or 50 per cent of the time. This not […]
Indigenous Peoples Day highlights AI’s risks and opportunities
An estimated 476 million Indigenous Peoples live across 90 countries, representing 5,000 different cultures. Without proper safeguards, AI risks harming Indigenous rights through inequitable distribution […]
Just 1.5 per cent of Gaza’s agricultural land remains accessible and undamaged
A new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) reveals that just 8.6 percent of cropland in Gaza […]
Rocket Lab Launches Kushinada-I Satellite to Orbit for Japan’s iQPS
In early August 2025, Rocket Lab successfully launched QPS-SAR-12 (nicknamed Kushinada-I), a synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellite built by Japan’s iQPS (Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of […]
