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A new report from Oxford and the UN has found that economic recovery spending has not been as climate-focused as many advocates have been hoping for. But there's hope for the future. The World's Anna Kusmer reports on whose recovery has been the greenest and where the US fits in.

It was one year ago today that the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 crisis a pandemic. While the pandemic is far from over, museums are looking ahead to how this period may be remembered. Host Marco Werman has the story.

YouTuber Adam Levy left the world of climate change research to make humorous videos about climate change instead. His goal is to get people to care about the issue, and connect to climate research and action. On The World's weekly look at climate change solutions The Big Fix, he speaks with Marco Werman about how YouTube can be a tool for social change and reduce his own climate anxiety.

The Biden administration is pursuing a high-level diplomatic effort to speed up peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. The news was made public after local media published a letter from Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. The Biden administration is also proposing a “roadmap for the peace” which has received mixed reactions. The World’s Shirin Ja...

The Asian American Pacific Islander community has a website where people can report hate crimes in more than 10 Asian languages.  Russell Jeung, co-founder of StopAAPIHate.org, tells host Marco Werman about the increase of anti-Asian hate crimes in the US during the pandemic, and what steps his organization is taking to document them.

Hate crimes against Asian Americans appear to be on the rise around the country. A group in Oakland's Chinatown has organized residents, who are formerly incarcerated, to serve as community ambassadors. Heidi Shin takes a tour of the community with some of these people, who are particularly trying to help the elderly.

The Biden administration is turning away migrant adults at the US-Mexico border. They are invoking Title 42, a pandemic health order implemented in 2020 by the Trump administration. Charlene D'Cruz, of Project Corazon, an initiative of the Lawyers for Good Government in Brownsville, Texas, tells The World’s Marco Werman the directive isn’t based in science.

Addressing climate change has been an early top priority for the Biden administration. One of the first actions Biden took was reentering the Paris climate accord. John Kerry, now the special presidential envoy for climate, has been reinforcing that message over the past week in Europe. Host Marco Werman talks with Tim McPhie, a spokesperson for climate action and energy at the European Commission...

In May 2011, just weeks after the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown, The World’s  Marco Werman visited the port city of Ishinomaki, where more than 3,000 people died after a 9.0 earthquake triggered a tsunami that flattened much of the city. He took listeners along the ruined fishing port, past shipwrecks washed ashore, and by homes turned into rubble and cars smashed like tin cans. We spoke...

With several effective vaccines approved, governments around the world are now tasked with managing the unprecedented rollout to inoculate populations from the coronavirus. The immense effort has led to some creativity in making the jab accessible. In London, taxis are being converted into Vaxi Taxis to transport people to vaccination sites. And officials in Ghana are using small drones to fly vac...

In recent months, multiple major cyberoperations have been detected here in the US and attributed to foreign nation-states. There was the SolarWinds hack discovered back in December and attributed to Russian state actors, and now we're learning more about the Microsoft Exchange hack, which experts attribute to China. According to recent reports, this hack has hit at least 30,000 victims in the Uni...

Rina Sawayama’s debut album, “Sawayama,” hit the scene with a bang. Songs range from nu metal to hyperpop to ballads. It quickly became a hit with critics, fired up an international fan base, and even got a shoutout from Elton John. But when award season came around, the 30-year-old artist wasn't nominated for two of the top UK awards because she was deemed not British enough to be eligible. The W...

A new art project in Japan commemorates the earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster by speaking to some of the survivors. Two pairs of artists, Americans and Japanese, are behind the project. Marco Werman speaks to two of the artists, Hiroyuki Abe and Sue Mark, who talk about the voices they collected from residents of the impacted Tohoku region of northeast Japan.

A controversial referendum in Switzerland banning face coverings, including the burqa and niqab worn by some Muslim women, passed earlier this week by a razor-thin margin. It's an example of how Switzerland's tradition of direct democracy and referenda, while designed as a protection for minorities, in this instance did the opposite. Host Marco Werman speaks to Oscar Mazzoleni, a professor of poli...

The child allowance provisions in President Joe Biden's COVID-19 stimulus package have the express intention of reducing child poverty. Many industrialized countries have had child allowances for years and the evidence suggests that they work in bringing people out of poverty. Marco Werman speaks with Luke Shaefer, director of Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, about how the child al...

Jordan recently became one of the world’s first countries to include refugees in its COVID-19 vaccination rollout. In Za’atari camp, the largest refugee camp in the Middle East, health workers are committed to inoculating its most vulnerable, despite the country’s limited resources and vaccine doses. Host Marco Werman speaks with Dr. Ahmad Bawaneh, Jordan director at International Medical Corps, i...

The pandemic has changed so much of our lives. It has robbed so many of loved ones, too quickly, and unexpectedly. It’s changed routines and rituals. For Mark Stobert, the lead chaplain at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge in the UK, poetry has been a way to navigate the challenges. Host Marco Werman speaks with him about his practice and what it means to be one year into the pandemic.

The pandemic was officially declared one year ago. It is hard to fathom the magnitude and the losses since then. The pandemic has changed, and in some cases, disrupted the way we grieve. As The World's Elana Gordon reports, psychologists are bracing for the ripple effects in years to come.

Some police officers in Greece will soon be equipped with portable devices that will be capable of facial recognition and fingerprint identification. The rollout is part of a “smart policing” project aimed, in part, at identifying third-country nationals who are in Greece illegally. Greek authorities say the technology will make police checks more efficient, but critics are sounding the alarm abou...

A US State Department official tells The World's Rupa Shenoy that a new anti-corruption award announced last month was the first salvo in a deliberate, larger strategy to combat corruption at a time when it’s surging across the globe.

One Brazilian health care provider dies of the coronavirus every 19 hours, according to the latest Brazilian government statistics. Dr. Miguel Nicolelis in São Paulo tells The World’s Marco Werman that his colleagues are under such immense stress that many feel as though they’ve spent the past year in a war zone.

All corruption convictions against former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have been thrown out by the country’s Supreme Court. The news is a huge political development in Brazil. The court ruling means that Lula, as he is known, is free to run for president again next year. And according to polls, he's a front-runner. Reporter Michael Fox has more.

Food is a terrible thing to waste, but we’re wasting a lot of it. In fact, a recent report from the UN, and UK-based food charity, WRAP, found that people threw out more than a billion tons of food last year. And if you include food rotting in fields, up to a third of global food is wasted. The World's Marco Werman is joined by Richard Swannell, international engagement director at WRAP.

The Myanmar military seems intent on shutting down the country's press. On Tuesday, authorities there raided two media companies and detained two people. That came a day after the military canceled the licenses of five local media outlets that had been covering the anti-coup protests. The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with Steven Butler, the Asia program director for the Committee to Protect Jo...

It’s been 10 years since a massive tsunami devastated Japan and caused a nuclear power plant in Fukushima to melt down. It was a traumatic event, one that left the Japanese public — and the world — wanting guarantees: That this would never happen again. But can Japan make that promise? Some of Japan’s most prominent earthquake experts say not exactly. The World’s Patrick Winn reports.