Climate change threatens the Pacific islands of Kiribati. In a filmed interview, diplomat Christine Greene says the island's future must be science: conservation, resilient ocean ecosystems, floating islands – and even a new concept: an "aqueous nation".

Palestinian TWAS Fellow and materials scientist Hala J. El-Khozondar delivered a TWAS Medal Lecture about her research on "metamaterials" that can make light bounce and bend

Regenerative medicine based on stem cells is an extremely promising field and interventions aimed at visual restoration are now becoming routine, scientists said at the 28th TWAS General Meeting in Trieste.

Strategies to boost crops yield and fortify food by increasing the micronutrients content would help to fight malnutrition and feed Earth's population in the years ahead, experts said at the TWAS General Meeting.

Sea pollutants and air contaminants pose severe threat to our planet, warned TWAS Young Affiliates at the Academy's General Meeting in Trieste. Solutions, they said, can be found in science and international collaboration.

TWAS and SRMGI are proud to announce the first eight geoengineering research groups from the Global South. The teams will explore how SRM could affect, amongst others, dust storms across the Middle East, droughts in Southern Africa, the spread of cholera in South Asia. Their findings will be published at the end of 2020.

As the founding executive director of TWAS, Mohamed Hassan helped to build the Academy into a global voice for science in the developing world. Now he will return as its president, seeking to guide it to new achievements.

Sedaminou Judith Gbenoudon from Benin wins the TWAS-Abdool Karim Prize for discoveries that have direct impact on diagnosis and treatment of malaria, one of the most important life-threatening diseases in tropical Africa.

TWAS has announced the winners of the TWAS Prizes for 2020 at the Academy's 28th General Conference and 14th General Meeting in Trieste, Italy.