India Close to Eradicating Polio, But Challenges Still Remain

The Newshour asked three experts to weigh in on the bird flu research debate.

While Philippine leaders debate, poor fishing families embrace birth control to ease pressure on over-fished reefs. Part of a new project called Food for 9 Billion that looks at the challenges of feeding the world in a time of social and environmental change, Sam Eaton of Homelands Productions reports.

With more than 7,000 dead and half a million people sickened, a U.N. health agency is calling the cholera outbreak in Haiti "one of the largest epidemics of the disease in modern history to affect a single country."

Two years ago, a devastating earthquake in Haiti killed more than 200,000 people and caused injuries that required amputations for another 4,000 people.

Scientists in Kenya's Rift Valley are taking part in a complicated and protracted global fight against Ug99, a fungal disease called wheat rust that could destroy 80 percent of all known wheat varieties. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports as part of the Under-Told Stories Project.

In remote regions of the Peruvian Amazon, extensive gold-mining operations have stirred major environmental concerns over mercury contamination in fish, fish-eating wildlife and humans. In collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza reports.

Mhammed Abbad Andaloussi has gained worldwide recognition for his efforts to improve schools in Morocco by linking them to business mentors, and by creating programs to teach students to be entrepreneurs.

The taboo topic of HIV, particularly how to prevent it and treat it, rarely surfaces in public ways in Muslim societies, but religious leaders across Morocco are trying to change that. Ray Suarez reports.