The World

The World

Each weekday, co-hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler and their team of reporters and producers bring you the world's most interesting stories in an hour of radio that reminds us just how small our planet really is. The World is heard on over 350 stations across North America.

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The World Team

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Nepal Army rescue workers help an exhausted, mud-covered survivor after a landslide
Latest updates from flood rescue efforts in Nepal
Full Episode
50:00
Women hold banners with photos of Colombian men, saying they are missing soldiers in Ukraine, demanding their return, at a highway toll station
Conflict & Justice
Colombians go to fight in Ukraine’s war for a way out of poverty. Many never come home.
5:20
Finding hospitality in an unknown place in India
6:55
25 years and two wars later, a veteran reflects on 9/11 attacks
11:58
Meloni reaches milestone as Italy’s longest continuously serving PM since Mussolini
5:27
Germany’s far-right AfD party has adopted a Jewish-built moped as a campaign symbol
5:17
An AfD win in Saxony could be the first time the far-right party governs
3:03
Spain’s elite female soccer stars can now freeze their eggs for free
3:41
The latest from on the ground in Nepal
9:56
Protesters hold signs reading "Basta de incitación a la persecución de las personas migrantes!" and Arabic banners, with a Moroccan flag and security officers nearby
Intelligence report alleges Morocco provoked Ceuta migration crisis
Full Episode
49:55
Winery staff pouring Peninsula Ridge Cabernet Rosé into glasses at a tasting bar
Business, Economics and Jobs
As US-Canada trade war escalates, boycotts help boost Canada’s wineries
5:20
People gather on a bridge over a river, some about to jump in, with a city skyline behind them
Climate Change
Warm, low and slow: Summer takes a toll on water in Switzerland
4:31
Killa’ sounds from Colombia’s KillaBeatMaker
3:10
Canadians fight back to counter Trump administration
4:50
Gloria Steinem’s lengthy collaboration with Mideast feminists
5:43
Gloria Steinem joined Indian feminists in the fight against sex trafficking
11:55
As temperatures rise, glacier collapses may become more common
8:10
Heat, drought and war scramble harvests, hike food prices
9:45
Intelligence report alleges Morocco masterminded migration crisis in Ceuta
3:43
People pull a rope guiding a cable cage carrying flood evacuees across a swollen, debris-strewn river
Nepal’s daunting road to flood recovery
Full Episode
48:36
Silhouette of an oil pump jack against an orange sunset sky
Energy
Key details remain unclear in US oil deal with Venezuela
9:13
AI can help create more accurate weather forecasts
7:08
Belarus’ Lukashenko goes after expats studying in Lithuania
6:53
MapQuest defies Trump
0:49
The stress in your sweat
4:44
Mexico pushes back on Cyclospora link
4:46
Sailors from USS Abraham Lincoln take shore leave in Thai city
7:57
Songs about artists including Japan’s Yayoi Kusama who recently died at 97
0:48
Ratko Mladić tributes spark outrage in Bosnia
6:14
Nepal’s daunting road to recovery
5:43
Mourners weep over open caskets outdoors as soldiers in fatigues embrace each other in grief
Colombians search for their fighters killed in Ukraine
Full Episode
49:29
Petrobras Grid gas station fuel pump with ethanol and gasoline nozzles, oil products displayed on shelf nearby
Energy
Ethanol is saving Brazilian drivers at the pump amid global surging gas prices
5:14
A scuba diver with a research tool releases bubbles while working over a rocky coral reef
Environment
Galápagos corals show El Niño events are more extreme now than in past 1,000 years – here’s how my team made the discovery
Korean adoptee builds a legacy of love in her family through food
7:24
As US-Canada trade war escalates, boycotts help boost Canada’s wineries
5:20
As Sudan fragments, its conflict increasingly draws in outside powers
11:39
Messi and the psychology of an athlete’s retirement
8:08
An Aussie open-air machinery museum
1:23
Families of Brazilians fighting in Ukraine reach out to reporter for help
6:33
Colombians search for fighters killed in Ukraine
5:20
Rescue workers in helmets and vests use a drill to clear rock at a landslide site in heavy rain
Nepal tries to rescue trapped hydropower workers
Full Episode
49:12
People swimming and sunbathing on a floating platform in the Seine, Eiffel Tower in the background
Climate Change
How to stay cool in Paris in extreme heat
4:54
Russia’s fledgling opposition is still pushing forward
7:01
Forging a new path in Mexico’s mariachi culture
8:09
Key details unclear in US oil deal with Venezuela
9:13
The kings of Chigiyo music
2:01
As more students use AI, Denmark’s new measures raise questions
6:09
Voters in Iceland reject resuming talks to join EU
1:13
Spain’s smallest island seeks independence to slow tourism
5:08
Nepal rescue efforts focus on hydropower workers stuck in tunnels
6:44
Man reading newspaper at a small Indian shop counter with snacks and drinks hanging above, milk price signs in Tamil posted outside
Climate Change
Indian cities looking to beat the heat get innovative
6:48
Three women stand at glass podiums bearing Iceland's coat of arms, one speaking to an audience, with Icelandic flags behind them
Could Russia and Trump push Iceland closer to the EU?
Full Episode
50:26
The search for a Jewish Moroccan song changed one artist’s life
7:28
Heat refuge in Rome
5:17
Creative Parisian ways of staying cool in extreme summer heat
4:54
Openly gay women’s soccer star signs with Saudi Arabia. Her marriage is illegal there.
7:35
Questions about security in Haiti after gangs kill dozens, take hostages
8:09
Ethanol at the Brazilian pump
5:14
Could Russia and Trump push Iceland closer to the EU?
6:39
The latest on Nepal
1:31