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An Indonesian businessman is trying to save his country’s carbon-rich peat forests by making money off of them.

The Kremlin-funded online Russia Direct outlet says it's "just trying to do well-balanced journalism."

You can't call it "champagne" because it's not made in Champagne, but in France, it's a strong rival of its fancier cousin.

In December 2015, the Canadian government started welcoming more than 35,000 Syrian refugees. Here's how some of them are faring 12 months on.

A physician in rural Indonesia is giving discounted healthcare to people who stop illegal logging in their villages.

It's crooked. It's chopped off at the top. It's too skinny. It's Montreal's Christmas tree.

Hundreds of thousands of people have entered Germany in the last year or two, applied for asylum, and been rejected. That means more than 500,000 are facing possible deportation. But German authorities are proceeding with caution.

Monday's truck attack in Germany has spurred a larger dialogue about increasing security and what it means for open society.

Russia, Iran and Turkey agreed on Tuesday to guarantee Syria peace talks and backed expanding a ceasefire in the war-torn country, laying down their claim as the main powerbrokers in the conflict.

A significant part of the battle for Aleppo, in Syria, has been for control of the narrative. Rebel underdogs have spun an emotional tale of helpless suffering and death among innocent people. The Russian-backed government has denounced the rebels as ruthless jihadi terrorists. So where does the truth lie?

The caps at the end of our DNA, known as telomeres, shorten with each cell replication. For this reason, telomeres have been used as a marker of aging. But researchers, writing in the journal Scientific Reports, have discovered one animal whose telomere length increases with age — the edible dormouse.

Though Turkey and Russia back different sides in Syria's civil war, the recent assassination in Ankara of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov does not seem to be dividing them further.

It used to be that women who wore headscarves in Turkey faced harassment and discrimination. Lately, it's the secular women bearing the brunt of it.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, protests turned deadly against longtime President Joseph Kabila, who is refusing to leave office.

Jellyfish are blooming like crazy — clogging power plant ducts and beaches, and overwhelming some marine ecosystems. And it’s largely because of human impacts like overfishing, plastics pollution and warming oceans.

Most of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions come from destroying forests.

Last century, hundreds of thousands of garment jobs went overseas to lower-wage countries like Vietnam, Bangladesh and China where labor is far cheaper. But, thanks to technology, a new garment maker is bringing jobs back to an old textile town in Massachusetts.

They call themselves patriots. And they say they're part of a right-wing movement in Europe that's proud of their culture and traditions. However, leftists say, “They’re racists, but they say they’re not racists.”

We looked into a local service that overnights freshly baked bread from Paris, expecting to find a ritzy gourmet scene. Instead, the bread reminded us how ephemeral life can be.

A Pakistani asylum seeker was arrested a short time afterward — but on Tuesday police cast doubt on whether he was the truck's driver, and said the "dangerous criminal" behind the attack may still be at large.

The fog of war doesn’t simply happen; combatants contribute to it strategically.

Laura Passoni went to Syria to join the ISIS terror group, taking along her 4-year-old son. She soon realized: "I made a very bad mistake."

Depression is real and nothing to be ashamed of. We want to help you talk about it.

It's been 20 years since HIPAA passed, but it's still tough to get a hold of one's own medical records.

Ethane is one of the most useful gases to the petrochemicals industry. But it needs some extra processing before it can become polyethylene, the chemical used in plastics manufacturing — and that processing can cause harmful pollution.

Canada is pushing forward on its initiative to rid the country of coal-fired power plants by 2030 and put a minimum national price on carbon by 2019.

European colonists to the Americas brought with them illnesses that devastated indigenous communities. New research explores this history in the genetic record.

Winter has now hit North America and many of us are shopping for new winter boots. Researchers in Toronto came up with a rating system to test the slip resistance of 100 different types of winter boots, based on how they performed against icy conditions simulated in their state-of-the-art winter lab. You won't be happy with what they found.

Lebanese satirist Karl Sharro loves to poke fun at the state of the Arab world. But the tragedy of Aleppo has left him doubting satire's role for the first time in his life.

British musicians and politicians join together to sing a Rolling Stones classic in memory of Jo Cox.

The former head of the CIA and the NSA, Michael Hayden, says a Trump presidency could make "unwise" choices if it continues to reject intelligence assessments.

Neighbors say a backyard pond was built without permits — the unforeseen consequence being, it's now a swingers club for amphibians.

What is real and what is fake now seems the dominant theme of world politics. Here's what it means for perceptions about Syria among two very different world powers.

President Barack Obama, who has vowed to retaliate against Moscow over its election cyber-meddling, faces the media Friday as tensions soar with Russia's Vladimir Putin.

This Syrian musician has turned the struggle for Aleppo and other battles in Syria into very sad songs.

President Barack Obama signaled his concern about civilian casualties in the Yemen war on Tuesday when he halted a major resupply of smart bombs to the Saudi Arabian air force. But the same day, the US Air Force delivered the Saudis four new fighter jets.

Many undocumented immigrants in the US work in cultivation, picking fruits and vegetables. They move around or live permanently on the fields, along with their children — many of whom were born here and are US citizens. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to get tough on illegal immigration. And that has many immigrant farming communities bracing for what comes next.

The producer of "Muslims Like Us" explains why he thinks the UK needs this show.

Water-starved cities around the world are starting to turn to a once-unpalatable solution: recycling their sewage. And they have a surprising pioneer to thank for developing the technology — the southern African desert country of Namibia.

Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. The entire downtown area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. And before the revolution in 2011, it had a thriving arts and cultural scene. We try to get a sense of what has been lost.

ETHEL, a string quartet from New York City, released "The River" in collaboration with Native American artist Robert Mirabal. The album features a mixture of traditional Native American music, indigenous sounds from Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe, and classical strings.

How much can you confidently predict about what will happen next week? Next year? In a decade? After the 2016 US election and Brexit vote, maybe less than you thought before. The future has always dished up surprises, but the road ahead isn't just a blind curve. Good journalism can help people think about the lessons of the past, and the signals in the present worth noticing. The World's newsroom has been doing that for 20 years. Whose Century Is It host and former East Asia correspondent for The World Mary Kay Magistad sits down with World host Marco Werman, reporter and editor Jeb Sharp and executive editor Andrew Sussman to talk about how the world's future looked in The World's early days, how it's changed since, and how to think about what might be coming up ahead.

Lagos is a modern megacity. But it's also home to millions of slum dwellers who have been forced to govern themselves in the absence of public services.

Thanks to a sister-state program, officials from Hebei province — an agricultural heartland — are hoping to replicate an American farm in China.

However a source close to Syria's government denied the development, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said hostilities were ongoing after an earlier agreement collapsed.

For generations, British people have relied on the seas around them to supply the key ingredient for a beloved national dish. But climate change is shifting fish stocks.

In the months after 9/11, the US government set up a system to register and interview men from Muslim-majority countries in an effort to combat terrorism. It was quietly shelved after a few years mostly because it didn't work. Trump’s advisors want to bring it back.