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Confirmed coronavirus cases exceeds 350,000; International students displaced...
Top of The World — our morning news round up written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.World leaders are desperately asking their populations to social distance and stay home as more than 350,000...
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The Big Fix: What can COVID-19 teach us about the global climate crisis?
“Every crisis deserves to be treated as a crisis,” Greta Thunberg posted online this month when she announced that her weekly school strike — organized through her Fridays for the Future — was going...
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US could be next epicenter, WHO says; ICC says Pompeo threatened staff; What...
Top of The World — our morning news round up written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.The UK woke up to much stricter lockdown measures to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, the...
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Regrowing Australia's forests may require human intervention
In Australia, wildfires have burned through massive forests of mountain and alpine ash — some of the tallest trees in the world. These trees aren’t naturally equipped to deal with frequent fires and...
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Coronavirus is changing how people think about fighting climate change
When climate journalist Emily Atkin was asked to pledge to stop flying to help prevent climate change earlier this year, she said no. “I gave my whole spiel about how we put so much pressure on...
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US leads in confirmed coronavirus cases; Germany's low mortality rate; How...
Top of The World — our morning news round up written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.Despite still falling far behind on testing, the US now has the most confirmed novel coronavirus cases in...
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Marco Werman: 'We are all connected'
From our very beginning, the driving spirit of The World has been to report on global news in ways that reflect a core belief in our newsroom: We all on planet Earth are connected. Our coverage helps...
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On Baffin Island in the fragile Canadian Arctic, an iron ore mine spews black...
Even 150 miles away from the Mary River iron mine, Peter Ivalu can't seem to escape its presence.He's heard rumors of white foxes turning pink, and caribou, walrus and narwhal disappearing from...
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Coronavirus cases exceed 1 million, wreaking world havoc
With death tolls soaring in the United States and western Europe, the world passed a grim milestone with global cases of the new coronavirus now over 1 million while the world economy spirals...
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Coronavirus has changed how we transport goods and ourselves. But will it last?
In Sweden there’s a word for the feeling of guilt when you take a plane ride that wasn’t exactly necessary: flygskam, which means “flight shame.”The culture of flight-shaming in Sweden is so ingrained,...
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Tips to survive self-isolation from citizen scientists on a remote Norwegian...
For more than seven months, Sunniva Sorby and Hilde Fålulm Strøm have self-isolated by choice in a one-room wooden cabin in Svalbard, Norway — a cluster of islands midway between continental Norway and...
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A sobering report on biodiversity loss spurs big plans to save species
As Earth experiences its sixth mass extinction and species disappear before our eyes, the United Nations and the Center for Biological Diversity have both released plans that address the extinction...
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Food supply logistics need a coronavirus ‘reset,’ says UN economist
In the fertile Satara district in western India, farmers are putting their cattle on an unorthodox diet: Some feed iceberg lettuce to buffalo. Others feed strawberries to cows.It's not a treat. The...
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'Dueling dinos' set off a long legal battle and a scientific debate
It’s been more than 200 years since the first dinosaur fossils were scientifically described. Since then, those prehistoric giants have captivated people of all ages, inspiring statues, theme parks...
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Decades of science denial related to climate change has led to denial of the...
American science denialism, deployed for years against climate change and, most recently, the coronavirus, can be traced back to the early 1950s during the fight over smog in Los Angeles. When a...
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Music to soothe the soul: Ludovico Einaudi's 'Elegy for the Arctic'
Editor's Note: This composition aired April 10, 2020, in a special edition of The World on faith in the time of the coronavirus. Composer and Italian classical piano superstar Ludovico Einaudi teamed...
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Coronavirus restrictions start to loosen in Europe; Oil-producing nations...
Top of The World — our morning news round up written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.The death toll and rate of new infections are starting to drop in Spain, one of the countries hardest hit by...
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Mutual aid groups respond to double threat of coronavirus and climate change
When Indigenous community organizer Valentina Harper co-founded the CareMongering mutual aid Facebook group in Toronto in mid-March to help people cope with the coronavirus pandemic, she was expecting...
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A new book chronicles the Koch empire's impact on American society
For decades now, climate policy has been stymied in the United States by a well-funded campaign of denial that includes elected officials dependent on campaign contributions from fossil fuel interests....
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Joy in water: One family's life in the Chinese mountains of Tianmushan
The intelligent find joy in water. If Confucius is right, we must all be prodigies.We moved to this mountain village, a three-hour drive from our home in Shanghai, because of the water, because of the...
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