PRI's The World Science

Each week, The World's Rhitu Chatterjee brings you the latest and greatest science news from all four corners of the globe. The World is a US-based international news and analysis program co-produced by the BBC, PRI, and WGBH.

PRI's The World Science

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The US Forest Service is being overwhelmed by all the fires it must fight

Calling over boat noise is making endangered orcas hungrier

'How beautiful, the way life hangs on. How brave it is to live.'

Can you swipe your way to new friends?

Was that extreme weather event influenced by climate change?

Displaced Iraqis struggle to stay cool during sweltering heat wave

Oceanographer Sylvia Earle is on a mission to save our seas

Underfunded wildlife enforcement in the Pacific Northwest fails to keep up with poachers

Experts suggest Russia is behind a wider-than-believed hack of Democratic campaign computers

What can killer whales teach us about menopause?

This is the controversial plan underway to save the endangered whale-like vaquita

The physics behind the world’s fastest swim strokes

Waste from a secret US base was left to be entombed "forever" in Greenland's ice. But forever has ch

Entombed Cold War-era US military base may be exposed by climate change

The US gets its first offshore wind farm, with a lot of help from Europe

Seeing 'Frankenstein' through the lens of climate change

Diamond labs say theirs are forever too — even if they were made yesterday

Why New Zealand is going all out to kill its rats, possums

Where is modern cloning, 20 years after Dolly?

Why snails are one of the world's deadliest creatures