The UN warns that there’s an “unprecedented” crisis in the Persian Gulf with 20,000 sailors trapped there since the beginning of the Iran war in March. Vessels there have come under attack and crew ...

Around 200 hippos are roaming freely near the Colombian town of Doradal, descended from four animals that Pablo Escobar ...

Hundreds of ferries, oil tankers, cargo ships and fishing boats ply the Bosphorus Strait every day. They take hundreds of thousands of passengers and millions of pounds of cargo each year. But they ...

Mawlynnong in India has been called the cleanest village in Asia and has become a popular tourist destination. But now, ...

Annelise Finney reports for DW’s Inside Europe about the global process of historical reckoning — requiring former colonizing ...

Norway is the world’s largest producer of farmed salmon. But all those fish farms also come with nutrient pollution. A new report finds that pollution has reached a scale comparable to the raw sewage ...

Bombing refers to illegally releasing wildlife into nature, to restore its presence. In Spain, two decades ago, someone let 18 beavers free in the Ebro river. Today, about 2,000 of the sharp-toothed ...

The United States has be a nation for 250 years. But it’s democratic roots go back much further, to ancient Greece. The new documentary “Athens: Birth of Democracy” looks at the time when democracy ...

The US Navy says it is now providing “guidance” to commercial shipping vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. But because of ...

The US Navy says it is now providing “guidance” to commercial shipping vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. But retired Navy Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, now senior director of The Foundation for ...

Historically, the cars made in China have been small. But at this year’s Beijing Auto Show, it was all about SUVs. Unlike their American competitors, however, these big Chinese cars aren’t gas ...

Late last month, the UN passed a resolution urging reparations for slavery’s “historical wrongs.” This is the latest — and most dramatic — moment in an ongoing and global process of historical ...