December 12, 2012  |   Jodie Wu's path to helping people in Tanzania started when she was nine years old. At that young age, the Conyers, Ga., native started working as a cashier and hostess in her parents' Chinese restaurant. She...

November 19, 2012  |   The smell of fresh baked bread is unmistakable at 1590 Park Avenue in New York City, but the kitchen has a social mission cooking as well. Jessamyn Rodriguez opened Hot Bread Kitchen in 2007 to improve...

November 16, 2012  |   What does legalizing marijuana mean for a dispensary owner? The NewsHour sat down with Steve Horwitz, owner of Ganja Gourmet in Denver, to get his perspective. DENVER -- When Coloradans legalized recreational marijuana on Election Day, they had a good...

November 2, 2012  |   Brandy Bauer is co-owner of Fran's Cafe, where politics is on the menu. Photo by David Pelcyger. WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. || When Brandy Bauer talks about her regulars, she turns toward the U-shaped bar in the back of Fran's Cafe,...

August 16, 2012  |   On the Joides Resolution research vessel, a team of scientists study the Earth's climate history by drilling deep into the ocean floor and analyzing the deep sea dirt. Two weeks ago the ship docked in Newfoundland,...

August 14, 2012  |   More ads, more candidate visits, and more pressure for votes. Welcome to Colorado. For many voters, the increased attention is a welcome opportunity to participate more fully in the political process. For others, the next few months mean unavoidable...

August 9, 2012  |   By 2008, the pressure to switch from diesel to natural gas was growing at the United Parcel Service shipping facility in Denver. A new technology called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" promised to drastically increase production. At...

July 31, 2012  |   Banadir Hospital staff bring a patient in for treatment. Photo by Abdullahi Ahmed Hussein. In the Somali capital Mogadishu, Mohammed Saeed Hassan was driving his ambulance one day in February when an artillery shell landed directly in front of...

March 29, 2012  |   Buildings vulnerable to collapse are everywhere. A skyscraper built on a parking garage in San Francisco could have too much open space with too few structural walls. Sand mixed into concrete for a house in Mexico might contain too...

March 9, 2012  |   Nuclear technician Carl Pillitteri was one of 38 Americans at the Fukushima nuclear power plant when an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan's eastern coast and triggered a radiation leak at the reactor. It's taken Pillitteri a...

January 30, 2012  |   Pigeons are seen eating on a street in Hong Kong on January 6, 2012. Photo by Aaron Tam/AFP/Getty Images. Earlier this month, the scientists who altered the H5N1 virus to create a more contagious strain that's transmissible between ferrets,...

January 13, 2012  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. [View the story "Global Health Week in Tweets " on Storify]...

December 15, 2011  |   A bunch of kids are running around outside, screaming and chasing each other, completely caught up in the moment. It's a familiar scene in communities across the United States, but not so much in some of...

October 17, 2011  |   After it had gone missing for decades in New York state, the nine-spotted ladybug was found in Long Island. Photo by AP/Cornell University, Ellen Woods. Once so ubiquitous it was named New York's official state insect, the nine-spotted Ladybug...