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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It has nothing to do with holiday spirit. Why your Christmas tree loses its needles.

Why Montreal has a Charlie Brown Christmas tree

Protecting Indonesia's forests, one doctor's appointment at a time

How to save forests? Run them like a business, says this former Wall Street man.

What we know so far about the Berlin Christmas market attack

Russia's ambassador to Turkey was shot and killed during visit to art exhibit in Ankara

A new book explores how to survive the 'Age of Accelerations'

Pie in the sky: Meat-and-potato pastry ventures into the stratosphere

This novelist riffs off the fact that Albert Einstein was a 'true outsider'

French bothered by the sounds of mating frogs

Recycling sewage into drinking water is no big deal. They've been doing it in Namibia for 50 years.

Climate change is coming for the UK's fish and chips

Do you know what's in your medical records?

China is creating a perfect replica of an Iowa corn-and-soybean farm

Russia cyberhacking US election dismissed as 'ridiculous' by president-elect

What are the best snow boots to wear?

Making the plastics found everywhere in modern life comes with a cost: more pollution

Jellyfish are ancient, beautiful and mysterious. But they're becoming a global headache.

Canada is moving ahead with an aggressive carbon reduction plan

With Trump's EPA pick, the prospects for stopping dangerous global warming just got a lot cooler