Almost all countries have fallen short on climate change commitments
The Paris agreement set a goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels. Climate Action Tracker measures countries’ progress toward meeting this goal and the latest...
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Countering Russian disinformation the Baltic nations’ way
As the new Congress begins, it will soon discuss the comprehensive reports to the US Senate on the disinformation campaign of half-truths, outright fabrications and misleading posts made by agents of...
View ArticleThe 'Green New Deal' started with six college grads. Now, they're recruiting...
If you’ve heard of the buzzy, new climate plan the Green New Deal, it’s probably been linked to progressive star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.“This is going to be the Great Society, the moonshot, the civil...
View ArticleTrump reveals missile defense strategy with eye on North Korea
President Donald Trump unveiled a revamped US missile defense strategy on Thursday that called North Korea an ongoing and "extraordinary threat," seven months after he declared the threat posed by...
View Article'Vaccine hesitancy' is on the WHO's list of 10 threats to global health in 2019
Every year, the World Health Organization releases a list of what they believe are the top 10 threats to global health. This year, the list included a few new additions like "weak primary health care"...
View ArticleNational parks and public lands suffer during US government shutdown
When the United States government began a partial shutdown on Dec. 22, 2018, many national parks were left open without adequate personnel.All across the country, facilities on public lands and at...
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A teen scientist helped me discover tons of golf balls polluting the ocean
Plastic pollution in the world’s oceans has become a global environmental crisis. Many people have seen images that seem to capture it, such as beaches carpeted with plastic trash or a seahorse...
View ArticleHistorian: Technology and politics has always been dysfunctional in the US
Throughout his presidency, President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter with his spin on every twist and turn. So it might be tempting to believe that the relationship between technology and politics in...
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What Thwaites Glacier can tell us about the future of West Antarctica
Editor's note: The World’s Carolyn Beeler will be aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer for a seven-week research expedition to Thwaites Glacier this January through March. Follow along with her journey on...
View ArticleTake a dip in the woods: Scientists say ‘forest bathing’ is good for you
When is the last time you took a walk in the woods? Numerous studies suggest that taking in the peaceful atmosphere of a forest can have significant health benefits. Now, the practice of “forest...
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Brazil dam collapse death toll rises to 60, hundreds still missing
Grief over the hundreds of Brazilians feared killed in last week's mining disaster has quickly hardened into anger as victims' families and politicians say iron ore miner Vale SA and regulators have...
View ArticleBrazil's new president targets Amazon rainforest, Indigenous peoples
On his first day in office, Brazil’s recently elected President Jair Bolsonaro — sometimes called the Trump of the Tropics — shifted regulation of Indigenous lands in the Amazon rainforest to the...
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An unexpected challenge on Antarctica: Measuring snowfall
Any explorer who makes it to the planet’s southernmost continent quickly learns how to battle the wind. It howls through the unpaved street of McMurdo Station — the largest US research outpost on the...
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European colonization of the Americas killed 10 percent of world population...
While Europe was in the early days of the Renaissance, there were empires in the Americas sustaining more than 60 million people. But the first European contact in 1492 brought diseases to the Americas...
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Facebook is a persuasion platform that’s changing the advertising rulebook
Facebook — the social network that started in a Harvard dorm room 15 years ago — has evolved into a media and advertising giant. It’s helped create a new age of precise consumer insights. With over 2...
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Why I can’t quit Facebook: I want to click 'love' when I see refugees' big...
These days it seems everyone is starting to #DeleteFacebook after a series of data privacy scandals. I’ve considered it, too. But there’s one reason I can’t quit: I’d lose my main window into the lives...
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Climate change is the overlooked driver of Central American migration
As people from Guatemala and Honduras continue to seek sanctuary in the US for a variety of reasons, including violence and poverty, another factor driving their migration has gotten much less...
View ArticleGermany to restrict Facebook's data gathering activities
Germany, where privacy concerns run deep, has ordered Facebook to curb its data collection practices in the country after a landmark ruling on Thursday that the world's largest social network abused...
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Commentary: The border wall problem few of us are talking about? Climate change.
Fog rolls in over the mountains as night falls in Buena Vista, a small town in Guatemala with a spectacular view over the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. The land here is studded with boulders and...
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Lise Meitner — the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel...
Nuclear fission — the physical process by which very large atoms like uranium split into pairs of smaller atoms — is what makes nuclear bombs and nuclear power plants possible. But for many years,...
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