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A professor's spreadsheet has been showing students what it would take to wean our economy off carbon for 10 years. “It’s not about pessimism, it’s about realism,” he says.

On a small London backstreet, a few minutes walk from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, a unique ceremony takes place every month. The Crossbones Vigil is unlike any other ritual for the dead in this city: It follows no particular religion, and it commemorates no powerful or famous people. It is for the people the city prefers to forget: the outcasts.

A reporter from Texas shares what he's learned about Israeli gun culture while living in Tel Aviv.

Robert Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe's president on Tuesday a week after the army and his former political allies moved against him, ending four decades of rule by a man who turned from independence hero to archetypal strongman.

With the lack of leadership in Washington, the private sector is seen as more and more important for combating climate change. And many companies are stepping up.

This week is one of the most heavily traveled weeks of the year. Authors of a new book about midcentury album covers take us on a trip around the globe (Europe, Cuba and Egypt) by way of music and albums from the 1950s.

Sámi reindeer-herding families in northern Scandinavia are being hit hard by the impacts of climate change. But some may also suffer from an effort to help address climate change — a big wind farm, being built right through their herding grounds.

“This was one of the first really big testing points for how the US is going to be engaging with other countries on climate issues,” Politico reporter Emily Holden said.

South African President Jacob Zuma has been accused of corruption before, but "The President's Keepers" is generating a different level of buzz.

Hollywood’s gotten a lot of flack for its practice of white-washing. Now, the voice acting world, is also facing questions.

America’s 1990s hip-hop scene is reincarnated every Saturday night in what may seem like an unlikely location — beneath a highway overpass in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday she was ready to lead her party into snap elections after the collapse of high-stakes coalition talks plunged the EU's top economy into a political crisis.

The quarter-mile-wide hunk of space rock is affectionately being called "A/2017 U1."

President Robert Mugabe faced the prospect of impeachment on Monday after going on Zimbabwe TV to assert his control despite the military takeover and his party's vow to force him out.

Scientists are figuring out that our microbiomes — those multitudes of bacteria, viruses and fungi in our guts — affect far more than just digestion.

The topic was hot in the Supreme Court last month as justices heard oral arguments in the Wisconsin gerrymandering case.

Mandë Holford collects the snails with salad tongs and scuba gloves. Back in her lab, she studies their venom for compounds that could treat everything from cancer to chronic pain.

The fast retreat of glaciers and polar ice is sobering, if not terrifying, in what it implies for the future of life here on Earth.

They went to a shooting range together to better understand each other's point of view.

The Founding Fathers clearly thought the Second Amendment protected a critical freedom. But why?

The US and European economies are so interconnected that if trade relationships falter, the effects could be catastrophic.

No place in America feels safe from gun violence these days — not even the pews in a small-town Texas church. So, how are people of faith thinking about the problem?

Sexual assault in the tomato fields in Florida was rampant. Now, it's not. And farmworkers believe other women can learn from them about how to stop the abusive behavior in the workplace.

Artificial intelligence can now crack CAPTCHAs, and the implications go far beyond our Internet surfing.

Researchers say America's gun culture doesn't compare to anywhere else in the world. We went to Yemen, El Salvador and Norway for answers.

Why does the US have so many mass shootings. A criminologist turned to data science for an answer, comparing the US with 170 other countries.

How campy 80s sci-fi and a surrealist Mexican film inspired “Thor: Ragnarok.”

Poet/Sociologist/Educator/Tweeter Eve Ewing talks about poetry, Afrofuturism, hip hop, and social media.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service says the trophy imports "will enhance the survival of the species in the wild."

A clip of President Donald Trump sipping bottled Fiji Water went viral this week. Just as it’s branding suggests, the water actually comes from Fiji, and that has some economic and environmental implications.

Research shows that domestic abuse is a clear risk factor for patterns of escalating violence. So, how can domestic abusers get firearms?

Somalia is known as a land of poets. But what happens when Somalis are forced to flee their homeland, and settle here in the US — can the poetry live on in their new homes?

Elisabeth Holland says countries like Fiji are facing a "truly existential crisis."

Robert Mugabe is under house arrest, after 37 years as leader of Zimbabwe. We take a quick look back at how he got to power and how he stayed there, until now.

Even as it makes a big push into green energy and hosts big climate conferences, Germany has remained stubbornly reliant on coal for a big share of its energy. That might finally be starting to change.

President Donald Trump just returned from a 12-day, five-country tour of Asia. He's calling it a "highly successful trip." But the Economist's David Rennie has a different interpretation.

According to a recent Takeaway-Harris poll, more and more people (62 percent) say they feel comfortable speaking out and challenging their abusers. But when digging into those numbers, a different story unfolds.

Zimbabwe's military was in control of the country on Wednesday as President Robert Mugabe said he was under house arrest, although generals denied staging a coup.

Italy has failed to qualify for a men's World Cup soccer tournament for the first time in 60 years. And Italy fans are taking it pretty hard.

“Without question, fossil fuels will continue to be used, and we would argue it’s in the best global interest to make sure that when fossil fuels are used, it’s as clean and efficient as possible,” Banks said.

Ukrainian investigators hope that the news will help them with investigations into a former leader.

The environment coverage from PRI's The World and PRI.org is rebranding itself as Livable Planet.

The government-sponsored US delegation to climate talks in Bonn, Germany, aren't the only ones from the US there.

Wilmont Collins came the US as a refugee. Now he will be the first black mayor of his hometown.

He couldn't stand by while his beloved childhood landscape piled up with trash.

As a result of US sanctions on Iran, you can't donate to Iranian relief organizations directly, unless you have a special license.

Insects work very hard to feed the world’s people. They are also food for birds, bats and frogs, and they pollinate many plants, including food crops central to human civilization. But now civilization is destroying them.

"Wake Up Now" is the latest album from UK singer-songwriter Nick Mulvey. It was written and inspired by both personal and political events from 2016.

A family used part of their compensation funds to restore an old bandstand where their son used to hang out.

“As the Islamic State loses more territory, it needs some way to legitimize itself,” says Charlie Winter, a senior research fellow at the International Center for the Study of Radicalization.