The World: Latest Stories

The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is best known for breakthroughs in acid rain research. And it is still helping scientists learn — now about the effects of clear-cutting and climate change.

Planning a visit to see retreating glaciers, the Great Barrier Reef or Machu Picchu? Tread lightly, one travel reporter says.

In recent years, chytrid fungus has devastated hundreds of amphibian species around the world, like the mountain yellow-legged frog. Can inoculating them against the fungus help?

What makes 10,000 daily steps the magic number? Why does everyone at the office suddenly have a standing desk? Both have less to do with scientific evidence than you may think.

November’s election is set to be a wake-up call for both major parties. Arizona, long a red state, just might swing for Clinton. And the Latino vote will matter.

Some of the problems that will have to be solved by the next president will require innovation and ingenuity.

Last month, America Abroad spoke with former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, to discuss the relationship with the US and the stagnated peace process. The settlement issue came up quickly.

As an undocumented teenager, Antonio Valdovinos couldn’t become a Marine. He went on to start a civic engagement organization instead.

Marvel Comics has illustrated the almost super-human skills needed to be a parent in the Syrian town of Madaya.

As the dust settles, post-Brexit vote, conflicting views remain of what it means to be British, and on what enhances and what threatens that identity. Host Mary Kay Magistad visited London, and chats with people on different sides of the issue, with takes on identity, immigration and borders that defy stereotypes.

Hurricane Matthew hasn't even hit Florida yet and the death toll is already climbing. More than 100 people died in Haiti, with nearly two dozen more on other Caribbean islands.

Major League Baseball looks down on bat flips. But in South Korea, bat flips are common, beautiful and righteous acts of baseball awesomeness.

Ukraine has one of the fastest-growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world. One of the main reasons: intravenous drug use. But just outside the capital Kiev, a group is working with police to change their approach toward drug users — to treat addiction as an illness, not a crime.

The Chicago White Sox didn't make the playoffs, but the loveable Cubbies did! And that leaves this diehard White Sox fan feeling conflicted.

This election, immigration reform has often been reduced to sound bytes. For example, Donald Trump’s repeated call to “build the wall.” That simplified argument is disappointing for American farmers who rely heavily on immigrant labor.

The first time Chris Tara-Browne ordered a cappuccino in Siberia, it tasted terrible. So he started a nationwide chain of American-style cafes.

Not all recent immigrants from the Middle East are Muslims. Iraqis who practice the Mandaean religion have settled in and around Worcester, Massachusetts. And they're trying to keep their ancient religious tradition alive.

Vengeance, he says, does not make good public policy.

The historic global climate change plan negotiated last year in Paris is set go into effect in mid-November, years earlier than anticipated. The World's environment editor Peter Thomson reflects on how it happened and why it matters.

Abdul Kafi Al Hamdo says when the revolution began, he just wanted a better life for the next generation.

The thousands of women who hit the streets in Warsaw recently can claim a victory. But it comes with mixed emotions. Abortions, in most cases, are still illegal in Poland.

Eighty years ago, the East End of London had one of the biggest riots in the city's history. Tens of thousands of Londoners clashed with police after right-wing extremists attempted to march through a Jewish neighborhood.

Bob Bradley is the first American coach ever to land a job in the best soccer league in the world: England’s Premier League. And Bradley thinks he’s got the skills to succeed.

It's a fair question: Does media coverage of Syria adequately acknowledge the suffering rebels cause civilians?

At awards ceremonies in December, Nobel winners will receive their share of each million-dollar prize and a gold medal. Most will also get something more obscure: a piece of original artwork.

Milton Sanchez fled Colombia due to the armed conflict. Years later, he’s voting against the peace agreement. Here’s why.

President Barack Obama is strongly pushing for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would create the largest free trade zone in the world. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are falling over each other to distance themselves from the agreement. American farmers don't get that.

Tokyo's famous fish market has been slated to close for decades. But now it really has to go to make way for the 2020 Olympics.

In an effort to cut costs, Saudi Arabia's government payroll will shift to a calendar with 11 extra days.

Activists say US border policies have resulted in the deaths of migrants trying to cross the desert on the southern border. But it has also created jobs in a region where teenagers are recruited as smugglers by cartels.

Here's one of the lucky families from Aleppo who escaped the Syrian civil war while they could and re-settled in Denmark.

Most of the phosphorus used for crop fertilizer currently comes from phosphate rock on land, but those supplies are dwindling. An plan in Mexico for the world’s first underwater phosphate mine dredges up questions about priorities.

Today, late night and online comedy shows are a staple of the presidential campaigns. But just 50 years ago, it was almost unheard of for candidates to interact with comedians.

The Eloy Detention Center is one of the nation’s most controversial for the conditions in which it holds immigrant detainees. But for these families, it’s where they reunite once a week.

"We often have referendums in times of upheaval,” says expert and professor Matt Qvortrup.

You won't find another Western country with a homicide rate on par with what African Americans experience in the US.

Ed Ashurst says the smuggling of drugs and people across the border needs to be seen as a real, national problem. Something, he says, the government isn’t doing.

Daily life in parts of Syrian is violent, with attacks by forces aligned with the Syrian regime, as well as by forces aligned with the West.

The rejected peace deal between FARC rebels and the government took four years to negotiate, and would have officially ended five decades of conflict.

In Sunday's referendum, almost all Hungarian voters rejected EU quotas for resettling refugees across the 28-nation bloc. But little more than 40 percent actually voted — well below the threshold needed for the referendum to be valid. And some who did vote spoiled their ballot in protest.

A novel idea in Georgia aims to improve care for vets by helping them connect with their roots down on the farm.

After a judge denied a halt to construction of the section of the Dakota Access pipeline that borders the Standing Rock Sioux Nation reservation, three federal agencies issued a joint hold on the portion in dispute. This marks a change in attitude by the federal government concerning Native American rights.

Eminent domain is the power granted to government to take private land for public use. But what if companies want to use eminent domain solely for profit and not the public good?

Former prison inmates are planting trees in Baltimore, helping to rejuvenate some of the city’s tough, poor and crime-ridden neighborhoods.

Fitness device and app makers are turning to stories, challenges and even our friends to keep us moving .

Using familiar tools like iPads, telepresence robots can act as our eyes, ears, and bodies in faraway places.

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.

Why Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler has a laser to thank for his voice.

Ratification of the Paris Agreement is moving forward in countries around the world. But the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency is casting doubt on whether the US will meet its obligations.

“It’s a celebration. It’s a wake," said space scientist Monica Grady. "We said goodbye to a dear friend."