Ice cream, picnics and beach balls are staples of summer at the beach. They are also sources of alarming oceanic pollution: plastic bottles, fishing lines, netting, cigarette butts, food wrappings and more are washing up on the world's beaches. The average cigarette butt takes 12 years to biodegrade, while a plastic bag takes up to 1,000 years. Can clean sand be a reality, or will waste be our legacy?
Will the Trump administration’s cancellation of solar and wind projects hurt climate progress? Ian Bremmer breaks down what's at stake in the renewable energy transition.
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Former president Jair Messias Bolsonaro is inaugurating Route 22 in eight cities in Rio Grande do Norte, starting with the cities of Extremoz, Natal, Parnamirim, and Mossoro, in Natal, Brazil, on August 16, 2024.
5: A large union of Nigerian resident doctors began a five-day strike on Friday over unpaid wages and benefits.
In this episode of GZERO Europe, Carl Bildt discusses Russia’s drone incursions into Poland.
The assassination of 31-year old conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah yesterday threatened to plunge a deeply divided America further into a cycle of rising political violence.
284: Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has deployed military assets to 284 “battlefront” locations across the country, amid rising tensions with the US.
Nepal’s “Gen-Z” protest movement has looked to a different generation entirely with their pick for an interim leader. Protest leaders say they want the country’s retired chief justice, Sushila Karki, 73, to head a transitional government.