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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at some recent cases of foreign governments detaining US citizens. For information about missing Americans, see Robert Levinson Fast Facts or POW/MIA in Iraq and Afghanistan Fast Facts. Currently Detained Americans China Mark SwidanNovember 13, 2012 – Swidan, a businessman from Texas, is arrested on drug related charges by

By Angela Fritz and Rachel Ramirez, CNN As the world battles historic droughts, landscape-altering wildfires and deadly floods, a landmark report from global scientists says the window is rapidly closing to cut our reliance on fossil fuels and avoid catastrophic changes that would transform life as we know it. The state-of-the-science report from the United

By Brandon Miller, CNN Monday’s report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) represents the most comprehensive and conclusive “state of the science” on the climate crisis: why it is happening, how it is impacting every region of the planet, how much worse things are set to get and what must be

By Amy Woodyatt and Jennifer Hauser, CNN Failure to act now on climate change will result in “catastrophic” consequences for the world, the leader of the United Nation’s next climate talks has warned. “I don’t think there’s any other word for it,” Alok Sharma, the British minister in charge of the 26th UN Climate Change

By Eliza Mackintosh, CNN The war against Covid-19 is changing, putting into stark relief the deepening divide between countries that have the weapons to fight the virus and those that don’t. As concerns mount over the highly contagious Delta variant, wealthy nations are tightening their grip on vaccine arsenals, while desperate people elsewhere in the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN We are driven by discovery. As a kid, I devoured stories about the arduous efforts to reveal the past (and I still do). There were divers seeking shipwrecks, astronomers peering through telescopes at the universe, researchers digging for fossils, and historians looking through pages and paintings to find lost masterpieces. Their

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Attempting firsts on Mars is hard, even if you’re an incredibly capable and advanced robot like the Perseverance rover. The rover attempted to make history on Friday and collect its first sample of the red planet, but data returned to Earth by Perseverance showed that no rock was collected during its

By Angela Dewan, CNN A crucial system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean that helps control temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere and has implications for the entire planet’s weather systems is showing signs of instability due to human-made climate change, scientists say. Its collapse would have dire consequences for our weather and life on Earth.

By Amy Wray, CNN Good Samaritans save a stranded orca, a woman fights off a coyote with a stick and Prince Harry surprises Meghan for her birthday. These are the must-watch videos of the week. Free Willy! National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials and a few good Samaritans stepped in to free an orca

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