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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Spain’s far-right moves closer to power
Full Episode
50:25
Street banner reading #LetsTalkHIV, Protection Prevents Infection, Free Condoms at MOH Clinics, Ministry of Health and Medical Services
Health & Medicine
Fiji is in the midst of an HIV crisis
7:57
Moroccan village music finds an unlikely legacy: hardcore electronica
7:22
Jamaican delegation gives King Charles reparations petition
0:57
Prescription for a superbug crisis
16:14
A new music collection from some old African artists
1:52
Impact of the ‘War on Terror’ on immigration enforcement at home
5:59
How prepared is the US military to defend its Pacific allies?
8:50
Spain’s far-right polls closer to power than ever
4:49
Collapsed multi-story buildings with debris strewn between rubble-filled shells, as an excavator clears rocks nearby
Decoding the causes of the Nepal-Tibet flooding disaster
Full Episode
50:12
A lone figure stands atop a rocky ridge overlooking a fog-covered bay dotted with floating ice
Out of Eden Walk
As temperatures rise, glacier collapse may become more common
8:10
United Nations votes for new world map
0:55
A Japanese mother’s stolen dream is revealed
6:45
Berlin-based Syrian singer makes her mark on ‘Without Us’
2:03
Israeli ‘Fly&Vote’ movement gaining steam
6:46
Indonesia’s free student meal program still making students and teachers sick
1:18
Renoir museum heist in France is latest in wave of art thefts across Europe
7:00
Fiji is in the midst of an HIV crisis
7:57
Chinese students visit a village in France to learn about Chinese history
4:59
The causes that triggered the Nepal-Tibet flooding disaster
8:29
Yard sign reading "Happy 250th Birthday" in red, white and blue with a fireworks design, set against a blue sky
Labor Day Special: The US celebrates 250 years
Full Episode
49:57
How global forces helped shape American democracy
7:12
Indigenous nations and the American Revolution
10:57
Teaching the American Revolution abroad
5:50
The US’ current political fault lines have colonial roots
8:16
Two songs woven into the nation’s origin story
1:33
How the American Revolution kicked off a global ‘Age of Revolutions’
11:52
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