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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.

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Exxon helped pioneer climate science — then disavowed its own research. Was it a crime?

'I'm fighting for the survival of my country in the battle against climate change'

Volkswagen’s deception will cause 59 premature deaths in the US

Along the Pacific Coast, a seabird is starving — and we don't know why

Climate change may soon make much of the Persian Gulf region too hot for humans

Toxic haze threatens millions in southeast Asia

California’s drought is hitting indigenous Latino workers hard

Climate change takes center stage among the Democratic presidential candidates

8 hurricanes that almost packed the punch of Patricia

Did the Kepler telescope just find the first signs of alien life?

Tanzania is trying to turn the charcoal trade from an enemy to a friend of the forest

An Alaskan tunnel yields clues to Earth's fragile permafrost

In Canada, Harper's out, but the Keystone pipeline may not be

This new museum explores the effect humans are having on the natural world

These scientists say they’ve found a cure for a type of congenital blindness

A MacArthur 'Genius' is working to clean up our polluting health care system

Love coffee? Need coffee? Your genes may have something to do with it.

The battlefields at Gettysburg have been getting an interesting makeover

Flaming, frothing lakes in India's Silicon Valley

Forecasting the Flu