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Cockroaches corralled by the millions in China to crunch waste
In the near pitch-dark, you can hear them before you see them — millions of cockroaches scuttling and fluttering across stacks of wooden boards as they devour food scraps by the tonne in a novel form...
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US a wild card as climate negotiators race to meet Friday deadline
It’s crunch time at the global climate conference in Katowice, Poland, and in the hallways and conference rooms, among sleep-deprived delegates and activists, there’s a palpable worry.The deadline for...
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New Chinese policy is forcing people to think: Is there a better way to recycle?
For years, the model for global recycling was pretty simple: throw it in a bin, then let China deal with the mess. But no longer. It’s been a year since China got tough with American cans, bottles and...
View ArticleBritish Parliament wants to shut down extremist content online — at what cost?
The United Kingdom Parliament’s intelligence and security committee published a report last month titled, "The 2017 Attacks: What needs to change?"The title is a reference to the five major terrorist...
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A Google affiliate is planning a ‘smart’ neighborhood in Toronto. Local...
A little over a year ago, Daniel Doctoroff, Chairman and CEO of Sidewalk Labs, Google's sister company, took the stage at a town-hall-style meeting in Toronto, Canada.It was the first in a series of...
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The world struck a major climate deal in Poland. So, what’s in it?
By the time the final meeting of this year’s global climate summit was gaveled into session in Katowice, Poland, it was past 9 p.m. on Saturday. Exhausted negotiators were more than 24 hours past their...
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Who is responsible for migrants?
President Donald Trump tends to portray migrants as a foreign problem that has suddenly — and unfairly — been “dumped” at America’s doorstep.Migration “is a way they get certain people out of their...
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If you recycled all the plastic garbage in the world, you could buy the NFL,...
This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Year.On Dec. 18, we announced the winner: 90.5 percent, the amount of plastic that has never...
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Rewilding war zones can help heal the wounds of conflict
Where the Iron Curtain once divided Europe with barbed wire, a network of wilderness with bears, wolves and lynx now thrives.Commemorating 100 years since the end of World War I, people wear poppies to...
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These fourth graders penned climate change poetry inspired by our coverage
We hear from a lot of listeners of The World and visitors to our website and social media feeds.But those comments are usually brief, often anonymous, and it can be hard to know if what we do every day...
View ArticleThe 'right to repair' movement wants you to be able to fix your own stuff
America’s throw-away culture has expanded in the last decade from everyday products and food to include consumer electronics — from iPhones to big-screen TVs. In response, a "Right to Repair" movement...
View ArticleWhy don't environmentalists vote?
According to the Environmental Voter Project, 20.1 million US registered voters say the environment or climate change is a top issue. But only a small portion of these "super-environmentalist" voters...
View ArticleNative American Congresswoman-elect Deb Haaland is ready to get to work
On Nov. 6, Deb Haaland, from the Pueblo of Laguna tribe in New Mexico, became one of the first two Native American women to be elected to Congress.Congresswoman-elect Haaland previously chaired New...
View ArticleJapan to resume commercial whaling after pulling out of IWC
Following an announced withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Japan said on Wednesday it plans to resume commercial whaling starting in July in its waters and exclusive economic...
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From the Amazon to the Arctic, The World’s biggest environmental stories of...
1. China stopped taking much of the US’s recyclingAt the beginning of 2018, China set much stricter purity standards for the recycling it accepts and stopped taking two dozen different types of solid...
View ArticleThe Trump administration continues to undercut its own climate report
The latest National Climate Assessment, assembled by 13 federal agencies, expressed the most serious warnings yet about the current climate impacts in the US and the likely scenarios in decades to...
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Converting forests into palm oil plantations is 'total devastation' for the...
Demand for palm oil is booming. It’s a common ingredient in a wide variety of foods and household products, from cookies, bread and chocolate to soap and shampoo. But, as it turns out, the conversion...
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Venezuelans fear 'Fatherland Card' may be a new form of social control
When Reuters revealed in November 2018 that the Venezuelan government had contracted with the Chinese company ZTE to develop a national biometric identification system, public reactions were mixed.The...
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Clean up your cyber-hygiene — 6 changes to make in the new year
Data breaches, widespread malware attacks and microtargeted personalized advertising were lowlights of digital life in 2018.As technologies change, so does the advice security experts give for how to...
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As Sumatran rhinos face extinction, scientists come to their rescue
Indonesia’s Sumatran rhino is one of the most critically endangered species in the world, with less than 80 of them left in the wild. Back in the 1980s, scientists hatched a plan to save the Sumatran...
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