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Chile Creates Latin America’s Largest Marine Park
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN In August, Chile broadened the protected sea zones under its watch to create a marine park that covers an area of 300,000 square kilometers, the largest such reserve in Latin...
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Take 5 — Water Innovation Around The World
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Droughts, demographics, industrialization, pollution, climate change ... The need for more clean and accessible water is growing urgent in many places around the world....
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Speed And Anonymity On The Internet Is Killing Truth
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Essay- BOGOTA — Truth has ceased to matter. In our times, everything depends on speed and efficiency instead. If the Internet does not give it to you immediately, at...
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In Sweden, A More Hands-On Approach To Premature Births
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO UPPSALA — Samira gently draws the sheet over her newborn's minuscule chest. The baby boy lies in a transparent cot at the intensive care unit of the Uppsala neonatal...
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The Open-Source Group Trying To "De-Google" The Internet
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO PARIS — How can we surf the web without using Google, Amazon or Facebook? French group Framasoft, which promotes the use of open-source software, offers a way. Under the...
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Parenting In Our Digital Age, Kids Suffer From Your Distraction
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — Is the internet producing bad parents? In the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, researchers analyzed domestic environments and found...
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Augmented Reality Moves From Pokemon Go To Factory Floors
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — Pokémon Go was everywhere this past summer. The game's famous Pokémon critters virtually swarmed cities and landscapes across the world, using geographic...
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In China, Local Governments Crack Down On Sharing Economy
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER BEIJING — With a GPS chip in every smartphone and real-time access to the internet, online taxi-hailing has revolutionized the way people travel. The possibility...
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Parapsychology, Serious Study Of The "Ghost" In Your Life
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG BERLIN — It's the summer of 2006, and Farnaz Azadi, a 16-year-old German-Iranian, heads on vacation with her boyfriend and his family to Portugal. One night,...
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Students Need New Mentality, Skill Set To Enter Job Market
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -OpEd- BUENOS AIRES — On a recent trip to New York, I saw hundreds of people of all ages waiting in line to buy the latest model of a cell phone. This device has become a...
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A Dirty Path From Smuggled Cigarettes To Terror Attacks
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT BERLIN – Organized crime syndicates have long smuggled drugs and cigarettes. Their distribution strategy is so effective that police around the world have a hard time...
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Can A Bottled Spray Ensure That Your Lover Stays Faithful?
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS GENEVA — Beloved French singer Edith Piaf probably wasn't aware of it but what made her see “La Vie en Rose,” or life through rose-tinted glasses, as she sings in one of her...
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My Grand-Pere’s World
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH For more than half a century, my grandfather has spent every spare moment exploring the world, and photographing his journey. 80 countries. 20,000 high-quality,...
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Vladimir Putin Is Playing The West For A Fool
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT -OpEd- BERLIN — Talks between the U.S. and Russia are again supposed to lead to a ceasefire in Syria, or at the very least a temporary pause in the horrendous bombardments...
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Poland's Abortion Battle, Why Free Women Are Done With Weak Men
Worldcrunch.com / GAZETA WYBORCZA -OpEd- WARSAW — A recent interview with Polish psychologist PaweÅ‚ Droździak set off a renewed round of polemics following the massive nationwide protests this month...
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Polish Schools Celebrate LGBT Students Despite Backlash
Worldcrunch.com / GAZETA WYBORCZA WARSAW — Schools in Poland celebrated "Rainbow Friday" for the first time so that students, regardless of their sexual orientation, feel accepted and respected. But...
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Russia's Other War, On The Front Lines In Eastern Ukraine
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA KIEV — The war in eastern Ukraine, which began two years ago, has largely faded from the world's headlines. But the fighting rages on, with an estimated 10,000 people...
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Who Will Win The White House, The Four Things To Know
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — There are eight days left before Americans will choose whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States. And,...
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Why UN Security Council Failing Aleppo Surprises No One
Worldcrunch.com / SYRIA DEEPLY -OpEd- NEW YORK — I'm almost certain I saw Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the Strand bookstore in Manhattan today. I wanted to walk over and call him a war...
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A Straight Black Line From East German Stasi To Egypt Of Today
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR -Essay- CAIRO — I better understood the tendency of the Egyptian state and security agencies to protect themselves after a few hours at the Stasi Museum in Berlin. It was...
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