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A look at the impact of pollution on rivers and efforts to keep them clean

Summer Olympics 2024

The organizers of the Olympic Games in Paris spent $1.5 billion to clean up the River Seine. The World’s host, Carolyn Beeler, speaks with naturalist and author Sy Montgomery about other efforts to keep rivers clean around the planet.

A new study finds that scientists may be able to detect dementia sooner and faster

Health & Medicine
In this photo provided by US Navy, the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Illinois (SSN 786) returns home to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam from a deployment in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility

Aukus security pact sparks Chinese and French ire

Top of The World
Two llamas in a field.

Could llama antibodies be the key to a coronavirus treatment?

COVID-19
Fedex Field, home of the Washington's NFL team in Landover, Maryland, is seen from Air Force One,  2013.

Washington NFL team retires racial slur from its name and logo

Sports
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When ‘oh, fudge’ won’t do: Researchers find benefits to swearing

Language

Researchers at the Swear Lab at Keele University in the UK have found that swearing can actually increase a person’s pain tolerance.

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London protesters say climate change is bigger than Brexit

Climate Change

Environmental activists are demanding the UK government declare a climate and ecological emergency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2025 and create a citizen’s assembly of members of the public to lead on decisions to address climate change.

A couple of signs

‘Transgender women are women,’ organizers say after controversy over women-only pond in London

Women & Gender

The Hampstead Heath Ladies’ Pond has been a place where women having been taking a dip for over a century. But earlier this year, there were complaints when transgender women used the pond

Miners leave after working the final shift at Kellingley Colliery

Britain built an empire out of coal. Now it’s giving it up. Why can’t the US?

Environment

The UK will stop burning coal for electricity by 2025. The US, meanwhile, is trying to end the “war on coal.”

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks at the unveiling of the statue of suffragist Millicent Fawcett on Parliament Square, in London, Britain, April 24, 2018.

All-male no more: London’s Parliament Square gets first statue of a woman

Culture

A statue of 19th century British feminist leader Millicent Fawcett was unveiled in London’s Parliament Square on Tuesday, the first monument honoring a woman in a public space previously occupied by 11 statues of men.

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