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Nerves fray, tempers flare as Venezuela blackout continues
Sunday marked the fourth day for Venezuelans enduring a nationwide blackout with no end in sight. Furious Venezuelans lined up to buy water and fuel in a blackout that has left already-scarce food...
View ArticleA micro safari through household germs reveals that cleanliness isn’t always...
Queen Elizabeth I — who ruled England from 1558 to 1603 — one declared, “I bathe once a month whether I need it or not.” Without question, our perception of cleanliness has changed radically, but our...
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Students around the world expected to skip school for climate
Students around the world are expected to skip school on March 15 in order to demonstrate against climate change, taking their cue from Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg whose weekly "school strike for...
View ArticleGlobal Boeing fears grow, families await Ethiopia crash remains
While black box recorders are yet to yield the cause, Singapore and Australia became the latest nations to suspend Boeing 737 MAX aircraft on Tuesday.Sunday's disaster — following another fatal crash...
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Happy 30th birthday, internet. Here is 21 years of The World's website.
Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the World Wide Web on March 11, 1989. Now, the internet and the web mean virtually the same thing and the world is connected in a way no one foresaw three decades ago. In...
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US will not suspend Boeing 737 MAX planes; discussion on black box analysis
The US Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it would not ground Boeing 737 MAX bucking a trend of countries around the world that have suspended the aircraft's operations.US and Ethiopian...
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The trolls are winning, says Russian troll hunter
Slaying online trolls can be a lonely business. Just ask Russia’s Lyudmila Savchuk, who first exposed the story of Russia’s disinformation campaign back in 2014. The journalist and 33-year-old mother...
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Antarctica dispatch 8: Behold grease, shuga and pancake ice
As February gives way to March and the nights grow longer at the bottom of the world, the sea around the Nathaniel B. Palmer is starting to freeze up.The National Science Foundation-chartered...
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Can the Ban Treaty eliminate the threat of nuclear war? The clock is ticking...
The “Doomsday Clock” is ticking ever closer to midnight — two minutes before, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Both the United States and Russia have withdrawn from the...
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How European kids are schooling politicians on climate change
Dhanya Reitschuster didn’t want to cut class this Friday — or last Friday or the one before. “I personally really like my school,” said Reitschuster, 15. “If they would listen to us, then we wouldn’t...
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'Worse than Voldemort'— global students' strike targets climate change
In a global protest against government inaction on climate change, tens of thousands of school students around the world walked out of classes on Friday and took to the streets."Climate change is worse...
View ArticleWhy history's most famous scientists are usually a bit weird
When Melissa Schilling was growing up, she was an awkward kid who “worried a lot about being accepted and being popular,” she said. “The fact that I didn’t have a lot of friends, I felt, meant that I...
View ArticleBoeing faces growing scrutiny in Ethiopian crash probe
Boeing faced escalating pressure on Monday after the initial analysis of the black boxes from the Ethiopian Airlines crash showed "clear similarities" with a Lion Air flight from Jakarta in October.The...
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Death toll in Mozambique cyclone, floods could surpass 1,000
Eighty-four deaths have been confirmed so far in Mozambique as a result of Cyclone Idai, which has also left a trail of death and destruction across Zimbabwe and Malawi, with vast areas of land...
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Mozambique starts three days of mourning after cyclone kills hundreds
Following a powerful cyclone that left a trail of destruction across swathes of southeast Africa, Mozambique on Wednesday started three days of national mourning.Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique's port city...
View ArticleWhy Luxembourg's free transit may not fix its traffic problem
Luxembourg is one of Europe's smallest countries. It's roughly the size of Rhode Island, nestled between Belgium, Germany and France.And yet, the tiny nation has a big traffic problem.So, it's doing...
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Antarctica Dispatch 9: Thoughts on climate change and returning home
The Nathaniel B. Palmer is headed back to port in Chile. Scientists aboard the vessel have spent the last several weeks conducting research at Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.There’s a sense of...
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A climate migration crisis is escalating in Bangladesh
Climate disruption is forcing entire communities from their homes across the globe, and perhaps no population is more imperiled than the people of Bangladesh.“Bangladesh is one of the world's most...
View ArticleTime for a change: EU lawmakers vote to scrap clock shifts in 2021
European Union lawmakers voted on Tuesday to scrap daylight saving time — the practice of moving clocks forward by an hour in the spring then back again in the autumn — starting in April 2021,The...
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Seven decades after the bomb, children of Hiroshima victims still worry about...
Nakatani Etsuko says her father rarely spoke of the day that the world’s first atomic weapon killed 140,000 people in his city of Hiroshima, Japan.But she says he did mention one thing: “That there...
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