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"When push comes to shove, China has done a really good job with pandas."

Pope Francis' environmental encyclical, Laudato Si, inspired a global conversation about the moral dimensions of climate change. Even before this, however, some lesser-known religious leaders, like Father Albert Fritsch, had been trying to bring this message to their parishioners and the world.

Hari Nef is fierce and funny and helps bring reality and relevance to one of TV’s most interesting new shows, "Transparent."

The Drug Enforcement Administration just cracked open a marijuana monopoly — but it’s not what you might think.

Niku, a piece of icy debris in the Kuiper Belt, has an orbit unlike almost any other object in our solar system. Why?

There’s a new space race underway — and this time, it’s headquartered in Silicon Valley.

These Hong Kongers aren’t clamoring for freer elections. Nor are they demanding outright independence. They want to transform Hong Kong back into British territory — and proclaim Queen Elizabeth II as their head of state.

Hint: Our bodies may fight infection better by day.

On Sept. 1, in a tiny Tanzanian village called Lupiro, a group of Danish and Swedish laser scientists and local experts on the behavior of malaria mosquitoes stared into the sky.

The US and China have just announced their commitment to the Paris climate deal, in a strong push to lead almost 200 countries to pledge to cut carbon emissions. But the future of that tandem climate change approach depends on the outcome of US elections.

The strongman's death ends more than 25 years of iron-fisted rule in the Central Asian nation with no clear successor lined up.

Youth sports around the globe are taking concussion risks seriously. But some take it more seriously than others.

President Barack Obama begins his 11th and final presidential trip to the Asia-Pacific in earnest on Friday, visiting China to nurture what has become arguably the world's most important relationship and cementing an eight-year "pivot to Asia."

A Jewish ski and tennis pro who survived Nazi and Russian occupations came to America penniless, built a fortune and used it to pay for the graduate school educations of hundreds of immigrants and kids of immigrants. In this episode of Otherhood we talk to one of them — Pardis Sabeti, a badass geneticist and super-cool rockstar who's also humble, genuine and driven to help others, even after going through a devastating accident that kept her in bed, staring at a wall, for months.

His admirers held red roses and sang a karaoke version of "Amor Eterno," a ballad by Gabriel that's often played at Mexican funerals.

Donald Trump says people don’t even talk about the issue. But he does. He calls them "criminal aliens" — undocumented immigrants with criminal records living in the United States. And he says there are 2 million of them.

Berhanu Nega, on leave from Bucknell University, is trying to overthrow the government of his native Ethiopia.

Environmental policy makers from more than 170 nations are meeting in Hawaii over the next 10 days. Many of the headlines are bleak. The conference has been named: Planet at the Crossroads. But there have also been some bright spots for the planet, including a growing push to protect the world’s oceans.

Many Mexicans have already made their minds up about Donald Trump. But, they're also now angry to see their president treat the US candidate like an actual statesman, given Trump's words about Mexicans.

Ricardo Aca has been speaking out against Trump's comments about Mexican immigrants. Following Trump's visit to Mexico on Wednesday, we reached out to Aca to get his impression and to see if his views on Trump had changed.

"We either come out to march or we will die of hunger. We are no longer afraid of the government," said 53-year-old demonstrator Ana Gonzalez. But backers of President Nicolas Maduro also came out to the streets to show their support.

Adrian Quesada grew up in Laredo, Texas — minutes from Mexico. He's a bilingual musician with his Latin rock band, The Echocentrics, performing tunes in Spanish and English.

There are only so many New Yorkers who want to undertake the messy business of butchering their own dinners. For everybody else, Leach Farms provides a unique service.

Senators voted overwhelmingly to remove Brazil's first woman president from office. She denounced them as misogynists who toppled her unjustly after losing four fair elections.

The election season has seen a lot of talk about an immigration "crisis" in America. So we crunch the numbers with an expert from the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC.

Abu Muhammad al-Adnani was a high-ranking member of ISIS and he was reportedly killed this week in Aleppo, Syria. The US had a bounty of $5 million on his head.

The number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean is almost as high as it was last summer.

"I don’t paint dainty little grandmotherly botanical illustrations."

Maine Governor Paul LePage is under fire for suggesting people of color are the enemy this election cycle — and may be forced to resign.

“If we cannot be black in school, where can we be black?” asks an alum of Pretoria High School for Girls. “Where can we be black if we can’t be black in Africa?”

The decision of 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to stop standing for the national anthem has provoked a lot of debate, to say the least. One part of the argument is about the anthem's little-known third stanza, and whether it is racist.

For more than three years, the Obama administration has been negotiating a new trade agreement with the European Union. Those talks are not going well. So, what’s at stake?

Waseem Akhtar has been sworn in as the new mayor of one of Pakistan’s largest cities – Karachi. But he's currently behind bars, charged with arranging medical care for suspected terrorists and stoking riots in the city in 2007.

It’s been more than a decade since the Concorde stopped running its high-speed shuttle from New York to London and Paris. But the days of supersonic flight may not be over for good.

Apple chief Tim Cook says he's "confident" the EU ruling would be overturned. He says his company is the biggest taxpayer in Ireland, the United States and the world.

Syrian rebels backed by Turkey are clashing with Kurdish fighters inside Syria. That's throwing into chaos an anti-ISIS alliance that all those groups belong to, and is led by US forces.

International corporations have been able to avoid punishment for toxic pollution and worse by appealing to a secretive and little-known international tribunal. The Investor-State Dispute Settlement program, or ISDS, is the subject of an 18-month investigation by BuzzFeed News.

Uzbek President Islam Karimov is in the hospital after a serious injury that could see his lengthy time in office come to a close.

Antoinette Martinez grew up in Sunset Park with her extended Puerto Rican family. But with real estate values skyrocketing, there's no way she'll ever be able to get her own place in the neighborhood.

Harry Fujiwara was a professional wrestler who was famous for his tricks. He'd blind other wrestlers with salt, or attack them with his cane when the referee was distracted. He was the ultimate heel, and a fan favorite.

At precisely 8:54 p.m. on August 28, 1957, Senator Thurmond began the longest continuous filibuster in US history. A final stand against a tide of history that was overwhelming the forces of racism and white supremacy that dominated the South and Southern lawmakers in Congress.

Defiant to the end, Dilma Rousseff said she went to the Senate to look her accusers in the eye, and she did. Here are some highlights.

At least 56 people in Singapore have contracted Zika in what is a major case of local transmission far from the Americas, where the disease has become established.

A pop performer known for his flamboyancy on stage, prolific songwriting and bestselling tunes, Juan Gabriel died over the weekend of a heart attack. He was 66.

CEO Howard Schultz is hailed as an innovator, but less known is that many of his Starbucks inspirations didn't take with Americans. But he's "a very good listener," says one historian — and he adapted.

As machines and robots and "internet of things" technologies continue to improve, what does the future of work look like?

No more “ghost stadiums”: Rio and other Olympic host cities are being encouraged to plan productive afterlives for their arenas.

Science rarely enters the debate during American political campaigns — unless it is a debate over the validity of science itself. But scientific evidence is central to public policy in America, one science advocate argues. In fact, “in America, evidence is the foundation of justice."

Undersea noise levels are increasing in the Pacific Northwest, as thousands of freighters, ferries and other vessels motor up and down the coast. Some new research details how all that noise might make life harder for endangered marine mammals.

Iceland is a volcanic country lashed by the North Atlantic. Black-legged Kittiwake dare to nest on inhospitable cliffs and hunt for fish in the tumultuous waves.