Scientists at the University of California San Diego are using bacterial spores to break down newly developed bioplastic. When the bacterial spores in these bioplastics are exposed to nutrients present in compost they break down the material at the end of its life cycle. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Adam Feist, a lead researcher at […]
For the past year, The World’s Africa correspondent Halima Gikandi has looked into Western-sponsored orphanages in Uganda, and seen what can go wrong. Gikandi can be reached at halima.gikandi@theworld.org.
Tayi Tibble is making headlines in the poetry world. And if you haven’t been paying attention you should be. The New Zealand born Maori poet released a new collection of poems, “Rangikura” earlier this month to critical acclaim. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Tibble about her youth, Maori identity, and what it means to connect […]
Global average sea-surface temperatures have set records for more than a year straight. It’s incredibly anomalous, and worrying for everything from marine life to hurricane season. Scientists believe several factors are at play, but don’t think they fully understand why temperatures have jumped up quite so fast. The World’s Carolyn Beeler reports on what kinds […]
A new study conducted in a Ugandan forest has established a link between deforestation and viral disease transmission. Animals living in that forest lost a source of food and were forced to eat virus-laden bat feces instead. Among the viruses found in the feces, known as “guano” is a relative of COVID-19. Host Carolyn Beeler […]
Britain’s Parliament has passed contentious legislation aimed at deterring asylum seekers from heading to the UK. People arriving via small boats or any other “irregular means” will be deported to Rwanda where their asylum cases will be heard. Joelle Grogan, of the think tank UK in a Changing Europe, describes the plan and its likely […]
The US House of Representatives passed another spending package worth $61 billion for Ukraine over the weekend. The World’s Daniel Ofman speaks with host Carolyn Beeler from Riga, Latvia, about what that money will go toward, and how people are reacting in Ukraine and Russia.
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Since 2020, avian flu has been tearing through bird populations across the globe — even being detected in Antarctica’s penguins. This month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported what might be the first documented case of the virus being transmitted from a mammal to a human — from a cow to a person […]
Over the weekend, the US House of Representatives passed a measure to ban the social media app TikTok in the US, unless its parent company ByteDance sells its ownership stake. Meanwhile, European Union regulators are looking at a new app from the company called TikTok Lite, which they say defies EU rules on social media […]