Young activists are making their mark in the climate debate
In 2019, just days before a major climate summit in New York, Ember and Azalea Morgan got an idea: Greta Thunberg, then 16-years old, and now a household name, was sailing to New York across the...
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Endangered corpse flower blooms in Warsaw, drawing crowds
Sometimes referred to as the corpse flower, the endangered Sumatran Titan arum, a giant foul-smelling blossom, went into a rare, short bloom at a botanical garden in Warsaw, drawing crowds who waited...
View Article17-year cicadas — noisy nuisance to some, delicacy to others
Eating cicadas isn’t just for the birds. They’re also perfectly edible for humans.With a soft body and thin exoskeleton, cicadas are similar to shrimp — so similar, in fact, that people with shrimp...
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Zhang Hong becomes the first blind person from Asia to climb Mount Everest
Eight million people in China are blind, but opportunities for them remain limited.This year, only 11 in the country took the college entrance exams. Many blind people, instead, find work as massage...
View ArticleNATO agrees to study how climate change impacts global security threats
At the NATO leaders summit in Brussels last week, the defense alliance said it would begin formally studying how climate change impacts security threats, calling climate change, “one of the defining...
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UNESCO: Great Barrier Reef should be listed as 'in danger.' Australia disagrees.
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.UNESCOAustralia plans to fight a UNESCO proposal to add the Great Barrier Reef to it’s list of World Heritage...
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Witnesses: Air raid kills dozens in Ethiopia’s Tigray
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.Tigray conflictDozens of people have been reportedly killed after an air raid on a busy marketplace in the...
View ArticleUnprecedented: Northwest heat wave builds, records fall
Intense. Prolonged. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. Abnormal. Dangerous.That's how officials described the historic heat wave hitting Canada and across the Pacific Northwest, pushing daytime...
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US launches airstrikes targeting Iran-backed militias
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.US airstrikes in Syria and IraqThe US has conducted airstrikes targeting Iran-backed militia groups near the...
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A 'sick joke': Tigrayan forces reject ceasefire in Ethiopia’s embattled region
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.Tigray conflictThe government of Ethiopia has said it could re-enter the Tigray region, just days after...
View ArticleScientists turn to the ancient Mayans for lessons on sustainability
When it comes to sustainability, cutting-edge building materials or new ways of harnessing renewable energy often come to mind. But there are also lessons to be learned from the past. Related: Mayan...
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Gunmen abduct 150 schoolgirls in Nigeria
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.Nigeria kidnappingArmed men have abducted around 150 schoolgirls from a boarding school in Nigeria's Kaduna...
View ArticleExternalities of intervention: Part I
This analysis was featured in Critical State, a weekly foreign policy newsletter from Inkstick Media. Subscribe here.The core mission of peacekeeping operations is, helpfully, right there in the name....
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‘The sea is throwing up’: Turkey’s record sea snot outbreak signals severe...
This past spring, Fatih Polat Timur, Istanbul’s municipal director of waterway cleanup, realized he was grappling with an unprecedented outbreak of “sea snot.”The slimy secretions resemble human mucus...
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Haitian President Jovenel Moïse assassinated in overnight attack
Top of The World — our morning news roundup written by editors at The World. Subscribe here.Haiti President assasinationHaiti’s President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated early Wednesday at his private...
View ArticleFord hits a 'home run' with its new all-electric F-150 pickup
Ford recently unveiled its first all-electric pickup truck, the F-150 Lightning, and it's causing quite a stir in the auto industry and among car and truck aficionados.“I think it's a real game changer...
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Explorer Robert Ballard’s memoir finds shipwrecks and strange life forms in...
Who doesn’t love a good story, especially one about amazing discoveries in Earth’s farthest reaches? Oceanographer, Navy veteran and explorer Robert D. Ballard has written a memoir, “Into the Deep,”...
View ArticleUS bans some solar products from Xinjiang, citing human rights abuses of...
A new report from Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom found that Chinese companies in the solar supply chain in Xinjiang are using Uyghur workers from government-forced labor programs....
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The ocean is full of tiny plastic particles. Researchers found a way to track...
Plastic is the most common type of debris floating in the world’s oceans. Waves and sunlight break much of it down into smaller particles called microplastics — fragments less than 5 millimeters...
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A NatGeo documentary reveals 'Secrets of the Whales'
In the four-part National Geographic video series, “Secrets of the Whales,” one theme comes up again and again: Whales have distinct cultures — and not just between different species of whales, but...
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