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World leaders met in Vilnius, Lithuania, for the second and final day of the NATO summit. Currently, 31 countries are part of the alliance. For years, NATO has touted its “open door policy.” Now, Ukraine wants to enter that door and become the newest member of the bloc, and its membership status is at the top of the agenda at the summit. The World’s Daniel Ofman reports.

A team of scientists say humans have changed the planet so dramatically, that we have created a new geological era on Earth — called the Anthropocene. That team spent years trying to find where a place on Earth best exemplifies this phenomenon. They decided on a lake in Southern Ontario in Canada. The World's host Marco Werman discusses this decision with Francine McCarthy, a professor of Earth sc...

The upcoming FIFA Women's World Cup is being billed as the biggest edition to date. The host countries — Australia and New Zealand — are hoping to leverage that buzz. Officials there have taken major steps to make sure the momentum surrounding women’s sports sticks around long after the tournament. The World's Bianca Hillier reports.

Mexico is one of the top producers of salt in the world. Most of this production is done industrially, in large areas near the coast. But a handful of Indigenous salt makers are preserving an ancestral tradition of making artisanal salt that goes back 2,000 years. Michael Fox reports from the Oaxacan town of Zapotitlan Salinas in Mexico.

A local biologist on Spain’s Canary Islands was performing a routine necropsy on a dead sperm whale beached on La Palma. Standard procedure. But what wasn’t standard was what he pulled from the beast’s colon, a 22-pound waxy chunk of what’s known as ambergris. The bowling ball-sized glob has a street value of some $550,000. Who would pay that much? Perfume makers. The World's Gerry Hadden reports.

On World Population Day today (July 11), we visit one of the world's most populated cities, in what's now the most populous country in the world: Mumbai, India. For generations, people have moved from the rural areas to the cities to find opportunity. But new research shows neighborhoods in Indian cities are segregated according to caste and religion, and that impacts upward mobility for residents...

Japan is home to a thousand different regional traditional crafts. Those industries attract domestic and international tourists and revitalize rural areas struggling with depopulation. But, the life of a traditional artisan is losing its appeal in modern Japan. From west Japan, Thisanka Siripala takes us on a tour of three towns making proactive efforts to train a new generation of traditional art...

As the worldwide heat record fell last week, the acute effects are emerging quickly. Extreme weather events are proliferating across the globe. The World's host Marco Werman talks with Michael Mann, a professor of Environmental and Earth Science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the forthcoming book, "Our Fragile Moment," about the possibility that extreme weather makes parts of eart...

UN Chief Antonio Guterres warned this week that Sudan is on the brink of a “full-scale civil war” that could destabilize the entire region of northeast Africa. Administrator Samantha Power, who leads the US Agency for International Development, talks with The World’s host Marco Werman about global efforts to aid increasingly desperate Sudanese civilians.

English has long been the lingua franca of US higher education. But in a country where 40 million people speak Spanish, is it time to think more bilingually? In this encore story, WLRN's Elisa Baena visits educators who argue that teaching only in English is excluding talent that the US needs.

Demonstrators took to the streets once again in Israel to protest the latest version of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposed judicial reform bill. Israel's parliament passed the bill on the first vote with two more votes before it becomes law. The World's host Marco Werman spoke with Noga Tarnopolsky, an Israeli reporter based in Jerusalem, about the latest developments.

After months of blocking Sweden's efforts to join NATO, Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has now agreed to support Swedish membership with the Western military alliance. US President Joe Biden welcomed the news. "I stand ready to work with President Erdogan and Turkey on enhancing defense and deterrence in the Euro-Atlantic area. I look forward to welcoming Prime Minister Kristersson and Sw...

Amazon has announced that next year it will begin streaming a new Spanish-language sequel series to the immensely popular “Yo Soy Betty La Fea” ( or "I am Betty the ugly one." Host Marco Werman explains, and wonders what the next theme song will convey.

The closing of Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee is a huge loss for many undocumented students in the state. The university was known for giving grants and opportunities to undocumented kids who don't have access to higher education. There are an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. They can attend public schools but it's more difficult for them when the...

Oscar Olivares is brightening up Venezuelan neighborhoods by creating colorful frescos made from thousands of recycled bottle caps collected by the communities he works in. Olivares joins The World's Carol Hills to talk about how eco-murals can promote sustainability and community investment.

For years, the West African country of Senegal has been heavily relying on Russian imports of wheat to satisfy a daily demand of about 10 million baguettes. But the war in Ukraine severely impacted the supply of this cereal — and the bread making industry in Senegal. So much, that the government has a new plan to address the problem. The World's Tibisay Zea reports from Dakar, Senegal.

Hong Kong police placed bounties on eight prominent democracy activists in self-imposed exile overseas on July 3, offering HK$1 million ($127,603) rewards each for information leading to their arrests. Host Marco Werman speaks with democracy activist Anna Kwok, one of the eight, who has said she will never stop fighting for the values she believes in.

The US has struggled to bounce back its workforce since the pandemic erupted, and the health care industry has been at the forefront of labor shortages. Facing limited staffing in hospitals and care facilities, a core group — foreign nurses hoping to work in the US and alleviate the imbalance — cannot work due to delays in green card processing, further exasperating the demand. Erica DeBoer, chief...

Scientists say the Northern Hemisphere is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet as a result of climate change. The effects of that are visible in Iceland where glaciers have been steadily melting for years now. But a climatic anomaly in the North Atlantic ocean, dubbed the “Blue Blob,” could extend the glaciers’ existence by several decades, offering humanity more time to reverse the Ear...

The recent fall of the Netherland’s government is only the latest example of how divisive immigration policy has become in Europe. Mujtaba Rahman, the managing director for Europe at the Eurasia Group talks with The World’s Marco Werman about how Europeans might devise continent-wide solutions to address the immigration crisis. 

After the war began in Ukraine last year, Ukrainians fleeing the violence spread across Europe. In the UK, a program paid families to take Ukrainians into their homes for six months. But the budget for this program was cut in half this year, and thousands of Ukrainians are looking for a longer-term solution, and risk becoming homeless. Rebecca Rosman reports from London.

Cluster munitions are artillery rounds that when fired, break apart before impact and scatter small bombs. They are widely condemned and even banned by many nations for the risk they pose to civilians and because years later, unexploded bombs can be unearthed or stumbled upon and explode. Still, Ukraine and the Biden administration argue that the cluster munitions will be a critical weapon in Ukra...

As in the HBO series “Succession,” the heirs of the late Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may have some issues about sharing following the disclosure of his will. Host Marco Werman tells the real-life story of the wealthy politician and media mogul who died last month, leaving overall control of the family business to his two eldest children, while distributing cash to family members, his...

This week Egypt marked a decade since Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi took power in a military coup, removing the country's democratically elected government. Sisi later became president of Egypt and has ruled the country in an authoritarian fashion ever since. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Timothy Kaldas, deputy director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, about Sisi's decade in power...

Spanish police are cracking down harder with new powers to suspend — or even cancel — professional soccer matches when fans begin yelling racist slurs at players. Spain is hoping the zero-tolerance approach will lessen these kinds of incidents.