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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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There was no big agreement, but plenty of progress at the UN Climate Summit

Forest ecologists are working to make New York's concrete jungle a little greener

A NASA spacecraft reaches Mars just in time to see an unexpected guest

Global wildlife populations have fallen by half — a stat that says it all

Solving climate change may require transforming capitalism

The water on Earth is even older than the sun

Amazon's new show might mark a new era in how you watch TV

Fearing pollution, some local governments are demanding back zoning control over oil and gas

One scientist calls the largest marine sanctuary in the world a volcano of fish

Women are the face of India's Mars mission, but they're still the exception

Some customers are bent out of shape after Apple's big iPhone launch

A scientist on the cutting edge of Ebola research calls for calm and focus

Are GMOs really behind India's farming success?

China says no to a shipment of US corn contaminated with GMOs — and surprising lawsuits follow

India is over the moon about its mission to Mars

'Dr. Fill' vies for crossword solving supremacy, but still comes up short

With the waters rising, the Dutch find eco-friendly ways to keep them at bay

The UN climate summit opens with a voice from an endangered nation

Louisiana's coastline is disappearing at the rate of a football field an hour

The Rockefellers call it quits on oil, divesting themselves from fossil fuel industries