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Global EV sales are on the rise. But the end of the internal combustion engine is still far away. For cars, it could take ...
The 2025 World Aquatics Championships will wrap up on Sunday in Singapore. The event has already seen multiple historic moments, including a new record set in the men’s 200-meter individual medley, ...
Cambodia is calmer this week following a truce with Thailand. The two countries have been battling over parts of their shared border — a clash involving artillery shells raining down and even ...
Climate change is making the Indian monsoon more and more unpredictable, with longer dry spells interrupted by intense bursts of rainfall. This shift toward short, heavy downpours rather than steady ...
France, the UK and Canada — have said they’re prepared to recognize a Palestinian state. The announcements have revived talk of a “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Host Marco ...
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas stepped down today after less than a year in the job. He’s denied any wrongdoing but said that scandals are hindering the government’s work. Several media ...
Australia is known for really big things, and really unusual wildlife, and a newly discovered stick insect ticks both boxes. Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler describe acrophylla alta, now thought ...
Curators at the National Museum of World Culture in Sweden recently invited a group of Zambian women to help understand the ...
In recent years, Brazil has become the world’s top consumer of shark meat. That’s because of a law that requires fishermen who catch sharks to bring the entire animal to port — not just the fins, like ...
Forest bathing dates back to ancient Japanese Shinto and Buddhist beliefs that spirits inhabit natural elements, which can ...
When Tijn Hoezen began his undergraduate studies at the University of Amsterdam in 2015, he wasn’t entirely sure what he ...
Every day in Mexico, people fill up their cars at gas stations that look completely legal. But a surprising share of that ...