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The wrinkles on the trunks of elephants are not a result of aging. They develop in utero.  And scientists have now discovered it is possible to determine an elephant’s “trunkedness” (kind of like being right- or left-handed) by analyzing them. Host Carolyn Beeler finds out more about elephant trunk wrinkles from Lena Kauffmann, one of the authors of a new study published in the journal Royal Socie...

As Hurricane Milton approaches, authorities in Florida are providing evacuation orders, emergency information and shelter locations in Spanish and Haitian Creole, as well as in English. But Florida residents speak more than 130 different languages. And non-English speakers face innumerable challenges, as Adriana Menéndez of the Rural Women’s Health Project in Gainesville, tells host Carolyn Beeler...

When Kolkata celebrated the 150-year-old tram system's anniversary last year, it was limping along. Last month, the city announced it would end tram service, aside from a very small heritage loop. The tram does have a small but loyal band of supporters that want to keep it alive. They're making a last-ditch effort to get the city to reconsider. We're bringing back this story from reporter Sandip R...

President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced details about her administration's security plan. From Mexico City, The World’s Tibisay Zea reports.

British Canadian scientist Geoffrey Hinton and his US colleague have received the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics for their work laying the foundation for machine learning. Hinton is optimistic about AI's possible contributions to medicine. But he tells host Carolyn Beeler artificial intelligence could also cause serious harm to humanity. 

An innocent mistake by a museum worker in Lisse, Netherlands, landed a piece of art in the trash.  Fastidiously hand-painted and slightly crushed beer cans were meant to sit on the floor of the exhibit, but host Carolyn Beeler explains it left a temporary worker at the museum thinking it was litter that needed tidying up.

Israel is expanding its ground incursion into southern Lebanon and Israeli airstrikes continue to target Beirut's southern suburbs. About a million Lebanese have been displaced in recent weeks, and many in Lebanon are feeling abandoned by the international community. Host Marco Werman speaks with reporter Leila Molana-Allen in Beirut about the deadly quandary Lebanon finds itself in.

Aziz Abu Sarah is a Palestinian American peace activist based in east Jerusalem and the US. Since Oct. 7, he's engaged Israelis in conversations around peace, which he believes is the only path forward for the people of the region. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Abu Sarah about the difficult conversations he's had in the past year and his hopes for peace in the future.

Tae Chong's family migrated from South Korea to Portland, Maine, in 1976, when the city was overwhelmingly white. Music helped Chong fit in, but there were some hurdles along the way. Tae Chong shared his experience with GBH's "Stories From The Stage."

In India, results are in from Kashmir's election — a vote that was seen as a referendum against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler have the details.

Since August, India and China have been in talks, hoping to resolve long-standing border issues that date back to 1962. That's when the two Asian superpowers fought a monthlong war along an ill-defined border running through the Himalayas. The fighting ended when China declared a ceasefire and occupied a territory known as Aksai Chin which India continues to claim. Even now, occasional border stan...

Kais Saied has steadily cleared institutional checks on his power and detained opposition politicians on the road to his victory in Tunisia's presidential election. The latest results mark a cynical milestone in the decline of Tunisia's once-promising democracy that emerged from the Arab Spring. Host Marco Werman speaks with Ines Jaibi, a lawyer and activist in Tunisia, about what the results sign...

Gershon Baskin, a backchannel hostage negotiator for Israel, says a compromise he wrote with an Israeli general and a senior Hamas negotiator is ready for endorsement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Joe Biden. He explains to host Carolyn Beeler what's in the proposed deal and what it's like trying to bring the hostages home.

Lake Uru Uru, once clean enough to drink, has been practically ruined by mining waste and urban pollution. But now, a group of Indigenous women are cleaning the Andean lake in hopes they can revive its natural ecosystem. Sarah Birnbaum reports.

During Argentina’s dictatorship in the late 1970s and early 1980s, state terror led to the killing and disappearance of roughly 30,000 people. In recent decades, there have been efforts to remember the victims of these crimes, and more than a thousand people have been convicted for their roles. But the government of Argentina’s new libertarian President Javier Milei is now closing these investigat...

The 2022 Pakistani film "The Legend of Maula Jatt" broke the country's box office records. It should be headed for screenings in India right now, but politics got in the way, keeping an ad hoc ban in place that prevents the two countries from sharing films. As we hear, the musical production values in "The Legend of Maula Jatt" are still what we've come to expect from either Bollywood or Pakistan'...

Twenty-one year old computer engineering student Shayma Ahmed used to live in a house with concrete walls. She’d drive to campus each day in a car. Now, home is a tent. Her only means of transport is a donkey cart that winds through streets of rubble in the central Gaza city of Deir al Balah. She tells host Marco Werman about the immeasurable sorrow the past year has brought her family and friends...

As the world's climates change, farmers around the globe need more accurate weather forecasts to help them determine when and what to plant. A new paper from the University of Chicago shows that better monsoon forecasts in southern India, in fact, improved the returns for farmers in 100 villages. Sushmita Pathak visited a few of them in the state of Telangana to hear how the farmers received the f...

Larch trees have become a foliage fan favorite across Canada and even parts of the US. Massive crowds are descending on national parks and forests to bear witness to the larch trees' crisp golden colors. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with David Bird, a professor of biology at Mount Royal University in Canada, about the larches and what makes them so special.

In Russia, interest rates for home mortgages are way up. But the Russian government has created a workaround. The catch is, you have to be willing to move out of the city, and into the hinterlands. And once you opt in, you have a vested interest in preserving the status quo of an authoritarian government. Levi Bridges reports on how Russians are navigating their economy in the shadow of ongoing wa...

Israelis took part in somber ceremonies on Monday. They marked one year since the Hamas led attack  killed around 1,200 people, most of them civilians. The war that began in the Gaza Strip on that same day is still not over. And the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is escalating, with Israeli air strikes and an expanding ground invasion. People across the region are also waiting an...

Much of the rhetoric in the US presidential race has zeroed in on immigration. Republican candidate Donald Trump blames the Biden administration for challenges at the US-Mexico border. The Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, lays that blame squarely at Trump's feet. She promises to revive a now-defunct border security bill to fund asylum officers, increases in Border Patro...

Former President Donald Trump has promised mass deportations if he makes it back to the Oval Office. Vice President Kamala Harris says if she wins in November, she’ll back a revamped version of the bipartisan Senate bill that would make it more difficult for migrants to get asylum. Claudia Masferrer of the El Colegio de México in Mexico City tells The World’s Marco Werman what the new policies wil...

Parts of Antarctica are turning green at an alarming rate, according to new research. Scientists used satellite imagery and data to analyze vegetation levels on the Antarctic Peninsula, a long mountain chain that points north to the tip of South America. They found plant life had increased in this harsh environment more than 10-fold over the past four decades. Host Carol Hills explains.

The Chagos Islands were once part of the British Empire, and islanders were forced out to make way for a military base that is run by the United States. Now, the UK is returning the islands to Mauritius. Michael Kugelman, director of the Wilson Center's South Asia institute, explains the deal the islands' strategic importance today.