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Soldiers who led Mali coup promise new elections; EU steps up pressure on...
Top of The World — our morning news round up written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.The Malian soldiers who led a coup ousting President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta on Tuesday have promised to hold...
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UNESCO project aims to save Sanaa's historic mud brick towers
Heavy rains that began in July have caused floods that have killed more than a hundred people across Yemen. In the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, floodwaters have coursed through a 2,500-year...
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The world’s getting hotter. Can naming heat waves raise awareness of the risks?
The mercury hit 130 degrees in Death Valley, California, last weekend. If the provisional measurements are upheld, it’ll be the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth using modern equipment.The...
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Could migration be a solution to the climate crisis?
As climate change reshapes our world, it’s also going to change where we live. Up to a billion people are expected to move by 2050 to escape the worst impacts of drought, rising sea levels and natural...
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Storm Marco closes in on Louisiana as Laura buffets Cuba
Tropical Storm Marco brought a surge of high water to the Louisiana coast on Monday as a second storm, Tropical Storm Laura, enter the Gulf of Mexico with a trajectory toward the same stretch of US...
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Pompeo controversially brings the RNC to Jerusalem; China's lockdown in...
Top of The World — our morning news round up written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used Jerusalem's Old City as the backdrop for his prerecorded speech to...
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All eyes on Wisconsin after 2 protesters killed; Israel-Hezbollah tensions...
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.International attention has again turned to an explosive racial incident in the United States, as a mixture...
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Biden-Harris ticket highlights historic stance on climate and environmental...
Vice President Joe Biden’s choice of Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate is historic. Harris is the first Black woman and Asian American on a major US presidential ticket,But their pairing is...
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Laura blasts Gulf Coast with wind, rain and wall of seawater
Hurricane Laura made landfall early on Thursday as a Category 4 storm in southwestern Louisiana and one of the most powerful storms to hit the state, with forecasters warning it could push a massive...
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Hurricane Laura slams Gulf Coast; Kenosha tension boils over; Beijing tests...
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.Hurricane Laura made landfall just after midnight in southern Louisiana, 35 miles east of the Texas border as...
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What Aboriginal Australians can teach us about managing wildfires
Since last summer’s bushfire crisis, there’s been a quantum shift in public awareness of Aboriginal fire management. It’s now more widely understood that Aboriginal people used landscape burning to...
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Typhoon Bavi strikes North Korea amid pandemic lockdown
A powerful storm has swept over North Korea, which is still recovering from previous deadly flooding. But relief from these disasters has been hindered because of Pyongyang’s restrictive efforts to...
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California and Australia look to Indigenous land management for fire help
After years of advocacy work, cultural burning practitioners had a win in Australia last week, when the government of New South Wales, the state hit hardest by last year’s catastrophic bushfires,...
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Kremlin denies Navalny was poisoned; Pompeo announces sanctions on ICC...
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.Russia has rejected the German government’s statement that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was...
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The 'China dream': The new Silk Road begins at home
This essay is part of "On China's New Silk Road," a podcast by the Global Reporting Centre that tracks China's global ambitions. Over nine episodes, Mary Kay Magistad, a former China correspondent for...
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How Indigenous land rights could help save the Brazilian Amazon from...
When Daiara Tukano was growing up, she learned from her family what it meant to care for the natural world and look after the rich ecology of Indigenous peoples’ traditional lands.“Indigenous peoples,...
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Faith and politics mix to drive evangelical Christians' climate change denial
US Christians, especially evangelical Christians, identify as environmentalists at very low rates compared to the general population. According to a Pew Research Center poll from May 2020, while 62% of...
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Young US Latinos are at the forefront of a climate revolution
This story is part of "Every 30 Seconds," a collaborative public media reporting project tracing the young Latino electorate leading up to the 2020 presidential election and beyond.Michelle Aguilar...
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Israel, UAE, Bahrain to sign historic agreement; US presidential candidates...
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are set to sign agreements on Tuesday toward normalizing relations with...
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Amid wildfires, US farmworkers labor with few protections
The smoky air was so thick in southern Oregon last weekend, it was like a dense fog. People up and down the West Coast stayed inside their homes as wildfires burned, spewing massive plumes of smoke and...
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