Tech companies are helping in Puerto Rico. Residents are unsure if it’s aid...
US-based tech companies are stepping up efforts to restore connectivity in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has deployed balloons to bring cell service back to the...
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The new DHS plan to gather social media information has privacy advocates up...
Sam Sinai was coming back to the US last month, after visiting family in Iran. When he got to Logan International Airport in Boston, US Customs and Border Protection agents told him he’d been selected...
View ArticleHow climate change and Donald Trump brought an end to this diplomat's career
Ask Dave Rank these days what he does and you’re likely to get an answer at once oblique and revelatory: “Boy, what am I?”Among other things, he’s a man trying to get used to his new status as an...
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Meet the women combing through Puerto Rico, searching for veterans in need
It’s early in the morning, and the entire city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, seems to be gazing at the sky with concern. It looks like rain but the island just can’t handle any more flooding.On the...
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Many Latinos are struggling in California's wildfires, but Spanish-language...
Unpredictable winds continue to fan the fires engulfing huge swaths of land in northern California Thursday. Authorities say more than two dozen people have died and hundreds are still missing, as of...
View ArticleRussia launches satellite to monitor the atmosphere
Russia on Friday launched a European satellite dedicated to monitoring the Earth's atmosphere, the protective layer that shields the planet from the sun's radiation, live footage from the cosmodrome...
View ArticleTrump decertified the Iran deal. Here’s what’s at stake for Iran’s budding...
In the US there's YouTube, Groupon and Uber. In Iran there's Aparat, Takhfifan and Snapp."A couple years ago the tech community in Tehran was just really a handful of [venture capitalists] and a [few]...
View ArticleWild elephants kill four Rohingya refugees taking shelter in Bangladesh
Wild elephants killed four Rohingya refugees, including three children, as they were building a shack on forest land in southern Bangladesh Saturday, police said.The incident occurred at Balukhali camp...
View ArticleHunting sea monsters in Kansas is easier than you might think
Hike long enough around the soft, chalky shales of western Kansas, and you just might stumble across a sea monster, half-buried in the soil.That’s because 85 million years ago, Kansas was at the bottom...
View ArticleFrom Hollywood to here: ‘Rememory’ and the future of memory
In the recent film “Rememory,” an inventor has built a device that can extract memories from the brain. There’s more to the story — a murder, for one, and an amateur sleuth played by Peter Dinklage —...
View ArticleOnline location data on endangered species might be putting them in harm’s way
The growth of data publicly available on the internet has been a boon for biological science and conservation. But it is also being used by poachers and dishonest collectors to locate rare plants and...
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We asked Puerto Ricans about their future plans. Many want to stay and rebuild.
As some Puerto Ricans fill flights to Miami, we asked a handful of people in San Juan their thoughts about leaving their homes for the mainland US. About 3.4 million people live in Puerto Rico, and...
View ArticleWe’re the biggest culprits behind wildfires. Now what?
In the United States, this year’s wildfire season has been wild, to say the least. Roughly 50,000 fires have scorched more than 8.5 million acres across the country, hitting the Pacific Northwest,...
View ArticleHow glow worms get their glow on
Visitors to certain New Zealand caves are treated to an amazing sight: Thousands of little lights twinkling on the cave walls, like Christmas lights. But the little lights aren’t bulbs or even...
View ArticleThe real death toll in Puerto Rico is probably 450 — much higher than the...
Three weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, we’ve seen images of the destruction and heard stories about the lack of electricity and basic supplies like food and water in some areas.But...
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Deadly wildfires ravage Portugal and Spain
On Sunday night, Rafael Kotcherha Campora posted a series of alarming status updates on Facebook: Kotcherha Campora was staying at his partner's farm in Galicia, Spain, when he spotted a fire on the...
View ArticleHigh-tech eyes in the sky help scientists understand fragile ecosystems
High-tech, remote imaging developed for the military has become a powerful tool in the hands of scientists studying the health of natural ecosystems.The technology allows scientists to assess forests...
View ArticleWhen disaster hits home: The Mexico City quake one month on
One month ago, on the afternoon of Sept. 19, a massive quake struck Mexico City and surrounding areas. That day, The World's Monica Campbell was in the Boston newsroom, far from her home and family in...
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Some Puerto Rican college students displaced by Hurricane Maria have already...
The first wave of university students displaced by Hurricane Maria has arrived to study in the mainland US, taking advantage of tuition discounts offered to Puerto Rican students whose home...
View ArticleIn Germany, flying insects are disappearing at a rapid rate
Flying insect populations dropped by more than 75 percent during the last three decades in dozens of protected areas across Germany, researchers have found.A club of mostly amateur entomologists used...
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