An angry rap video is roiling Indians against mercury poisoning

A new, angry, three-minute rap song in English has a simple message for the global consumer product company Unilever – clean up. The video, which was viewed and shared online by tens of thousands of people on social media networks in India on Friday, is the latest tool in the environmental battle against mercury poisoning being […]











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Driving a bus is a ‘death sentence’ in El Salvador’s capital city

Whether or not to drive a bus has become a life-or-death decision this week in El Salvador's capital city, where gangs are targeting drivers and causing a de facto strike. Five drivers and another transportation worker were found dead Monday morning after two buses were set on fire over the weekend, Reuters reported. By Wednesday night, the Los Angeles […]











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Map: What the world does and doesn’t know about climate change

As much as 40 percent of the world's adult population is unaware of climate change, according to a recently released study – and the vast majority of them live in developing countries. The Yale-led study, published July 27 in the journal Nature Climate Change, uses polling data to explain why the world is so divided in terms of climate change awareness and […]











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A politician in Finland declared war on multiculturalism. This is how his country responded.

Earlier this week, Olli Immonen, a legislator belonging to The Finns, an anti-immigration political party that's part of Finland's ruling coalition, published an incendiary post on Facebook. Written both in English and Finnish, the statement called on Immonen's countrymen to "defeat this nightmare called multiculturalism," describing it as "an ugly bubble that our enemies live in." […]











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How is North Korea changing? Let’s ask this British guy who’s been there 143 times.

BEIJING – Relatively few people can say they’ve been to North Korea. But the number of Westerners who've visited repeatedly for 13 years is a very select bunch indeed. Simon Cockerell is a member of that elite club. As the general manager of Koryo Tours, a British-run, Beijing-based travel agency, he started going to North […]











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6 big questions raised by the debris suspected to be from MH370

After more than 16 months and a global effort involving more than 30 countries and 140 ships, the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 finally yielded a clue Thursday. A piece of debris — strikingly similar to a moveable wing part found on Boeing 777s like the Malaysia Airlines plane  — was found washed up […]











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