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| 2002 DECEMBER
Dec. 31, 2002
Water Fight in the Great Lakes
Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on a fight over water in the Great Lakes.
 
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| Dec. 12, 2002
Forests and Fires
Terence Smith discusses the administration's approval of a fire fighting method involving logging and thinning of overgrown forests with the vice president of the Wilderness Society and the executive director of the Political Economy Research Center.
 
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| NOVEMBER
Nov. 20, 2002
Oil Tanker Sinks Off the Coast of Spain
An oil tanker sank off the coast of Spain on Tuesday. Experts discuss the threats this poses to Galicia's scenic coastline and rich fishing waters.
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| Nov. 4, 2002
Colorado's Scorched Earth
Tom Bearden reports from Colorado on healing the scorched land affected by last summer's wildfires.
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| SEPTEMBER
Sept. 2, 2002
Fishing Report in California
Jeffrey Kaye of KCET, Los Angeles reports on the tough new fishing regulations roiling the waters off the coast of California.
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| AUGUST
Aug. 26, 2002
Background: U.N. Summit
Tom Bearden reports on the opening day of the United Nations Summit on Strategic Development in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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| Aug. 26, 2002
Agreeing On Greener Growth
At a United Nations conference in South Africa, thousands of delegates seek agreement on ways to grow the economies of developing nations while protecting the environment.
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| Aug. 23, 2002
Drying Out: Colorado River Delta
Ted Robbins of KUAT Tuscon reports on the parched Colorado River delta.
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| Aug. 22, 2002
Background: President Bush's Fire Fighting Policy
Spencer Michels looks at the president's new plan to prevent future forest fires by thinning national woodlands.
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| Aug. 22, 2002
President Bush's Fire Fighting Policy
Reaction to President Bush's announcement to change national fire fighting policy.
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| Aug. 9, 2002
Fire Policy in the West
Betty Ann Bowser presents the second of two reports on fighting the fires in the West.
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| Aug. 8, 2002
Fire Policy
Betty Ann Bowser presents the first of two reports on fighting the fires in the West.
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| Aug. 1, 2002
Fishy Story
Essayist Clarence Page of The Chicago Tribune tells a fishy story.
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| JULY
July 30, 2002
Drying Out: Drought in the West
An update from Tom Bearden on the devastating drought in the American west, with a focus on one of the hardest hit rural areas in southeastern Colorado.
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| July 2, 2002
Fire Fight
In the second of two reports, Betty Ann Bowser looks at the ongoing debate over cautionary measures to prevent forest fires from being so destructive.
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| July 1, 2002
Fire Fight
The huge forest fires in the West this year have triggered a debate over how to keep them from being so damaging. Betty Ann Bowser reports on the conditions that helped spark the wildfires.
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| JUNE
June 26, 2002
Firestorm: Arizona Wildfires
Tom Bearden reports from Arizona on the wildfires that have now consumed almost 400,000 acres.
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| June 24, 2002
Firestorm: Arizona Wildfires
After an update from Kwame Holman on the wildfires in Arizona, Jim Lehrer talks with Abel Camarena, deputy regional forester for the southwest region of the U.S. Forest Service.
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| June 14, 2002
Firestorm: Colorado Wildfires
Betty Ann Bowser has an update on the Colorado wildfires.
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| June 12, 2002
Background: Firestorm
An update from Tom Bearden on the fires sweeping through Colorado.
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| June 12, 2002
Firestorm
Gwen Ifill talks with Colorado Governor Bill Owens about the fires sweeping through his state.
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| June 11, 2002
Firestorm: Colorado Wildfires
Tom Bearden reports on the dangerous Colorado wildfires.
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| June 4, 2002
Not In My State: Debating the Fate of Nuclear Waste in South Carolina
One state's fight over what to do with plutonium from the nation's nuclear weapon plants.
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| APRIL
April 30, 2002
How We Live: Atlanta
The first installment of a new series examining issues affecting people's daily lives. Ray Suarez has the first report which looks at urban sprawl in Atlanta, Georgia.
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| April 17, 2002
Drilling in Alaska
Kwame Holman reports on the congressional battle over oil drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge.
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| April 16, 2002
Toxic Fallout from the collapse of the World Trade Center
Ray Suarez reports from lower Manhattan on environmental concerns provoked by the collapse of the World Trade Center.
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| MARCH
March 20, 2002
Nuclear Waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain
Tom Bearden reports on the continuing dispute over storing nuclear waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain.
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| JANUARY
Jan. 21, 2002
Clearing the Air
Tom Bearden reports on the continuing debate over air pollution and its effects.
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