The World

Guy De Launey, from our partners at DW, Deutsche Welle’s, program Inside Europe, reports on Serbia’s vast lithium reserves and the challenges facing companies trying to access them.

Colombia is vying for a place in the global race to produce renewable energy. One desert region on its Caribbean coast is crucial for those energy goals: La Guajira. And efforts are ramping up quickly to expand the region’s green energy potential, with plans to drastically increase the number of wind farms planted on the desert soil over the next decade.

At just 22 years old, Naabil Khan is the founder of Skin For All, a website making information on skin conditions across diverse skin tones more accessible. She recounts the website’s story for our partners at Deutsche Welle, DW, on their program Inside Europe.

New York’s Fort Ticonderoga is celebrated for the artillery it contributed to the American Revolution. Less known, though, are the stories behind more than 100 cannons resting on its walls today.

In the US, sales of certain nicotine pouches are soaring. The small white pouches — Swedish cousins of chewing tobacco and dip but without the tobacco leaf — are everywhere on TikTok, flaunted by young creators who pop them under their lips, review flavors and talk about the buzz. One brand dominates the trend: Zyn, a product from Sweden that has quietly become a cultural export. But Swedes are now wrestling with what that popularity means — and whether this habit is saving lives as its promoters claim.