World Mar 18 Reporter’s Notebook: Syria’s ‘Red Lines’ Poster of President Bashar al Assad in Syrian street. Photo by Nicole See Syria's government is not usually hospitable to Western journalists, and officials in Damascus' Ministry of Information seemed as surprised as my teammates, Nikki See, Tom Adair and…
Health Feb 23 Guinea Worm: Parasitic Infection Nearing Extinction Officials at the Atlanta-based Carter Center said this week that the effort to eradicate the Guinea Worm parasite -- a scourge that dates back to Biblical times -- is now 99 percent complete. In an elaborate ceremony in Atlanta to…
World Jan 05 Four Months Later, Pakistan Still Reeling From Floods Pakistani children in flooded town of Khairpur Nathanshah (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images) It is hard not to sympathize just a bit with Pakistani officials who, amid widespread accusations of a feeble, uncoordinated response to last summer's floods, argue…
Health Dec 29 India Dispatch: Thriving Development Spawns Water, Resource Worries Boy drinks from water tanker in India. (Photo by Nicole See) NEW DELHI, India | If there are water wars in the future, conservationist Jyothi Sharma thinks they'll happen just outside her apartment in an upper-middle class enclave in Delhi's…
Health Apr 07 Eradicating Guinea Worm, Step-by-Step Poverty rarely gets more degrading than when people are forced to drink from the same muddy ponds as livestock and wild animals. Yet this was a common scene on my most recent visit to Southern Sudan and rural Ethiopia.
Science Dec 17 Controlling ‘Black Carbon’ May Be Key to Slowing Climate Change Black carbon is a relatively new entrant into the climate change lexicon. Professor V. Ramanathan, a leading climate scientist, ranks it behind only carbon dioxide as a cause of global warming. He says it is a major cause of…