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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Climate change is making Lake Superior a fishing haven, for the moment

Why it's a bad idea to make sarin gas in your kitchen

Canada takes another run at finding a pipeline for its tar sands oil

Australia's carbon tax looks to be headed up the smokestack

NSA has expensive problem with the power supply at its secretive Utah Data Center

When you buy ivory, you may be funding al-Shabab terrorists

Rangers in Kenya are outgunned in the new poaching arms race

Iceland's president wants his small country to play big role in the future of the Arctic

US government shutdown could reach as far as Antarctica

China's giant, killer hornets are straight out of a horror movie

Russia charges Greenpeace activists with piracy after protest at Arctic oil rig

Blippex offers a new, and private, way of searching — but privacy is elusive

Hyundai looks to put an unceremonious end to in-car cigarette lighter jacks

Bicyclists in crowded Indian city fight to take back the streets

The monarchs were missing this summer ... and we and weather were to blame

Climate, water, and the Syrian civil war: A scientist connects the dots

Despite near certainty in new UN report, a climate of denial persists

Pakistan government asks separatist militant groups to stop fighting so they can get help to survivo

Canadian Physics Student's Rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody Goes Viral

A Touch of India in North Carolina