Advocates hope the ban on ads glorifying cheap flights and gas-guzzling cars will pave the way for larger, more comprehensive ad bans across the Netherlands and beyond. | Continue reading
Mexican photographer Alejandro Prieto's image of a roadrunner bird, staring up at the enormous US-Mexico border wall, was just named the grand prize winner in the Bird Photographer of the Year competition. His captivating photograph highlights the threat to the delicate biodivers … | Continue reading
Stephen Anderson, country director of the World Food Program, spoke with The World's Marco Werman about the dire situation, from Myanmar's capital city, Naypyidaw. | Continue reading
Athens has appointed a chief heat officer, the first such appointment in Europe and only the second in the world. Chief heat officer Eleni Myrivili spoke with The World’s Lydia Emmanouilidou in Athens. | Continue reading
The town of Älvdalen is fighting to preserve its local language amid pushback from some members of parliament. | Continue reading
Violet Gibson from Dublin never made it into the history books. But she did come very close to changing the course of 20th-century Europe. She shot Benito Mussolini in 1926. Nearly a century later, the Irish capital is going to honor her. | Continue reading
Scientists are uncovering new details about the microbiome in the clouds. | Continue reading
Trees store information about climatic conditions in the rings they lay down each year. Dendrochronology — the science of studying these rings — allows scientists to learn about the ancient climate on Earth. | Continue reading
With spectators unable to watch live sports in person due to the coronavirus, the cheers and jeers must come from somewhere. Teams, leagues and broadcasters around the world are taking different approaches to provide artificial crowd noise for games. | Continue reading
With spectators unable to watch live sports in person due to the coronavirus, the cheers and jeers must come from somewhere. Teams, leagues and broadcasters around the world are taking different approaches to provide artificial crowd noise for games. | Continue reading
Researchers discovered that a special type of antibody found in llamas could be vital in fighting the coronavirus infection in humans. The World speaks to professor James Naismith, the director of the Rosalind Franklin Institute in the UK, and lead researcher in a new study on ll … | Continue reading
Apes can get COVID-19, too, and this could be devastating for endangered populations. Only about 1,000 mountain gorillas remain, and roughly half live in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. Veterinarian Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka spoke with The World's Marco Werman about … | Continue reading
A former head of OSHA explains why science is under attack during the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading
While an increasing number of countries are tightening their borders in an effort to halt further infections, South Korea is taking a different approach. But a rise in imported cases threatens to roll back some of the country’s progress. | Continue reading
Many Russians in the far north have been waiting for more than two decades to be resettled in lower latitudes. They are caught between Moscow's grand plans for Arctic development and an exodus of aging Soviet workers longing to see flowers rather than blizzards in the springtime. | Continue reading
Service providers don’t like to call it “cheating” — they prefer the terms “academic writing” and “online tutoring.” | Continue reading
Up and down the Mississippi River, new pressures are being put on America’s inland hydro highway, which helps deliver US goods and commodities to the rest of the world and allows trade flows to return. The strain on the river system is only becoming more acute with the impacts of … | Continue reading
New tech has promised us more and more connections. So, why do Americans feel so lonely? | Continue reading
Up and down the Mississippi River, new pressures are being put on America’s inland hydro highway, which helps deliver US goods and commodities to the rest of the world and allows trade flows to return. The strain on the river system is only becoming more acute with the impacts of … | Continue reading
The Singaporean government said incoming fifth and sixth graders won't be ranked based on test scores anymore after reports of suicide and overwhelming stress | Continue reading
There's a common post-9/11 assumption about terrorism in the United States — that it’s mainly the work of Muslims and foreigners. It’s not. | Continue reading
Much of the Western media narrative on China's social credit system has been outright false. As part of a collaboration between Wired magazine and The World, we take a look at what the system actually looks like, and how it really works. | Continue reading
Tens of thousands of tropical parakeets roost in London's trees. How did they get there? | Continue reading
Archeologists believe that Hasankeyf, Turkey's history began 11,000 years ago. Today, a dam reservoir will soon place the town deep underwater. | Continue reading
Gudetama is a cartoon egg yolk that feels existence is almost unbearable. How did it win so many Japanese hearts? | Continue reading
This is hardly what Americans envision when they drop off glitchy laptops or broken printers at their local recycling drop-off center. Yet, what fuels these Southeast Asian scrapyards is junk from afar — typically more affluent places such as Europe, Australia and the US. | Continue reading
Facing an unprecedented job crunch, many young South Koreans are signing up for government-sponsored programs designed to find overseas positions for a growing number of jobless college graduates in Asia's fourth largest economy. But the jobs are not always as advertised. | Continue reading
One hundred years ago Thursday, tanks went into battle for the first time. These giant armored killing machines have been a central feature of combat ever since. | Continue reading
In 1982, IBM was the king of personal computing – and Compaq’s first PC was just a design sketched on the back of a placemat. | Continue reading
There are lots of places around the world that use particular calendars — i.e. Hebrew, Islamic — but few places use their own clock. Ethiopia does, and knowing what time it is can be a real challenge. | Continue reading
"We are not prepared" for the impacts of climate change that are only now beginning to appear, says one scientist. | Continue reading
The unique role of the temperance movement in US history might explain why, when it comes to Americans' tastes, bland beer is still king. | Continue reading
Since Sept. 11, 2001, it is white supremacists and other right-wing groups that account for the majority of terrorist attacks on US soil, a new report finds. | Continue reading
The UK will stop burning coal for electricity by 2025. The US, meanwhile, is trying to end the “war on coal.” | Continue reading
Ever wondered about people who can improvise on stage? Neuroscientist Charles Limb and comedian Anthony Veneziale did. First came the bromance, then Veneziale found himself improvising inside an fMRI machine. | Continue reading