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.

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IMF: 'True cost' of fossil fuels is $5.3 trillion a year

A herd of endangered antelope in Central Asia has suddenly died en masse

One of nation's biggest polluters sucks water from drier and drier river system

From the White House to Minnesota gardens, an effort to make more room for pollinators

Despite the extreme heat wave hitting India 'you have to keep going'

New study links 'unprecedented' dolphin deaths with 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill

Is tornado activity in the US being affected by climate change?

'The situation is desperate' for monarch butterflies, but here's the plan to save them

Scientists roll back evolution by turning a chick's beak into a 'dino-snout'

Science isn't just 'boys with toys,' and these 'girls' can prove it

Astronauts could soon be blasting space junk with lasers

School bus pollution is dangerous, and efforts to control it are still uneven

The world's longest animal population study has bad news for wolves

Science crunched Billboard's charts to determine music's most revolutionary year. It was 1991.

Forget chemotherapy — try some genetically modified lettuce to fight your colon cancer

As Chile's climate changes, the world's oldest mummies are turning moldy

How maps are saving lives as Nepal recovers from its earthquake

How do you save the whales? Slow down the ships

The octopus church of French Polynesia may have you rethink your next seafood dinner

Noisy waters are bad news for the orcas of the Pacific Northwest