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Why stop at plastic bags and straws? The case for a global treaty banning...
Single-use plastics are a blessing and a curse. They have fueled a revolution in commercial and consumer convenience and improved hygiene standards, but also have saturated the world’s coastlines and...
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How to build a countrywide AI strategy? Finland is turning its seniors into...
In many ways, Hely Lyly is your typical grandma. She's retired, sings in a chorus, takes fitness classes, participates in a book club and spends a good chunk of her day taking care of her...
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Venomous yellow scorpions are moving into Brazil’s big cities – and the...
I live in São Paulo, the biggest city in Brazil, home to some 12 million people — 20 million if you count the outskirts, which have been sprawling for three decades.That makes it a good place to...
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Dispatch 2: Crossing the Drake Passage
The World’s Carolyn Beeler is riding along on a scientific expedition to explore the effects of climate change on the vulnerable Antarctic ice sheet.But to get there, the research ship — a National...
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Architecture's 'Lego' trend: Build rooms halfway across the world, then snap...
In the age of hyperglobalization, it seems that pretty much anything can be outsourced. Well, not anything. I mean, you couldn’t build an American hotel or apartment building in China or Eastern...
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A new book suggests AI and robots will take jobs — but make the world better
Richard Baldwin's newest book "The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work" has some dire predictions."What's going to happen with this globalization and service sector...
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Dispatch 1: Gearing up and shipping out
The icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer is setting out this southern summer on a seven-week scientific expedition to Antarctica’s massive Thwaites Glacier. The voyage marks the beginning of a five-year...
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Dispatch 3: The ship's first encounters with icebergs
The World’s Carolyn Beeler is on a ship bound for Antarctica on an expedition looking into the fate of one of the frozen continent's biggest glaciers. What they learn could tell us a lot about how...
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Antarctica Dispatch 4: Fieldwork begins, cue the seals
How quickly will Antarctica’s massive Thwaites Glacier melt, and what will that mean for global sea levels and coastal cities? Researchers are sailing toward Thwaites this month on the first leg of a...
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Climate change: Obsession with plastic pollution distracts attention from...
By now, most of us have heard that the use of plastics is a big issue for the environment. Partly fuelled by the success of the BBC’s Blue Planet II series, people are more aware than ever before about...
View ArticleTrump's wall will harm wildlife along the US southern border, say...
A wall along the southern border of the United States will disturb critical wildlife habitats, block migration routes for animals already stressed by climate change and could possibly lead to...
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Chinese internet users turn to the blockchain to fight against government...
Thanks to blockchain, internet users have achieved some victories in the fight against China’s strict internet censorship.A historic moment was made on April 23. Peking University's former student, Yue...
View ArticleHow to step away from the screen
Quick, don’t look away. You might be finding it difficult to stay focused — someone just liked your Instagram photo, your Facebook messenger group chat is blowing up, and oops, oh no, looks like you...
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Antarctica Dispatch 5: Detour, with scenery
A medical emergency aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer sends the ship and reporter Carolyn Beeler back north just as they’re about to reach the Thwaites Glacier. That means a big delay in starting work on...
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Antarctica Dispatch 6: First sight of Thwaites — mapping uncharted seafloor
The Nathaniel B. Palmer arrived at Thwaites Glacier around 2 a.m. ET on Feb. 26, nearly a month after departing Chile. On the first day at Thwaites, the Palmer traced a roughly 100-mile path around the...
View ArticleChinese innovation makes the 'Chinese Dream' real for many
Since he started campaigning for office, President Donald Trump has talked about few countries more than he’s talked about China. Mostly, he’s accused the country of hurting US manufacturing and...
View ArticleLondon HIV patient becomes world's second AIDS cure hope
Almost three years after an HIV-positive man in Britain received bone marrow stem cells from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that resists HIV infection, doctors say he has become the second known...
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Are viruses the best weapon for fighting superbugs?
Antibiotics won the battle against resistant bacteria, but they may not win the war.You probably know that antibiotic-resistant bacteria, also known as superbugs, have hampered physicians’ ability to...
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Antarctica Dispatch 7: Under Thwaites Glacier
Scientists aboard the icebreaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this week are getting their first up-close look ever at a massive Antarctic glacier that could play a big role in global sea level rise.They think...
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China and Indonesia halt Boeing 737 MAX 8 after Ethiopia crash
China, Indonesia and Ethiopia grounded their Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleets on Monday while investigators found the black box from an Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people in the second disaster...
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