Jul 23 Scaling Up: Vietnamese Fish Farms Search for Eco-Friendly Formula Until recently, only a tiny fraction of the world's food fish came from farms. Today roughly half of it does, and demand is expected to double by In a world hungry for protein, aquaculture is the ultimate growth… Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch California Activists Want Smart Meters Banned, Claim They’re Bad for Health California Activists Want Smart Meters Banned, Claim They're Bad for Health… Continue watching
Jul 20 Environmental Stand-up Economist: ‘We’re Going to Find Out How Bad Climate Change Really Is’ EmbedVideo(3942, 482, 304); Stand-up economist Yoram Bauman spent five months in China recently, studying climate change at a university and sending occasional video dispatches to us at Making Sen$e. I myself spent some time in… Continue reading
Jul 20 How Smart Are Smart Meters? For the past few years, activists of various stripes -- environmentalists, liberals, some tea party folks, and others -- have been protesting the installation of smart meters in Northern California and elsewhere. The meters send a wireless radio signal to… Continue reading
Jul 19 Watch Native American Communities Affected by Climate Change Plan for the Future Native American Communities Affected by Climate Change Plan for the Future… Continue watching
Jul 19 Climate Change Strikes Especially Hard Blow to Native Americans By Saskia de Melker // On Thursday's NewsHour, NewsHour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan moderated a panel discussion on how Native American tribes are coping with climate change. The panel included four native leaders representing their communities at the First Stewards symposium: Jeff Mears… Continue reading
Jul 19 Watch Climate Change Strikes Especially Hard Blow to Native Americ Hari moderates a panel on how Native Americans are coping with climate change. Continue watching
Jul 18 Watch Swinomish Tribe Works to Adapt to Shrinking Salmon Supply Washington salmon depend on the cold water from glacial lakes to survive. But as temperatures increase and glaciers shrink, salmon populations are declining, threatening the way of life for the Swinomish Indians, also known as the "salmon people." In collaboration… Continue watching
Jul 18 Northwest ‘Salmon People’ Face Future With Less Fish For Northwest tribes, salmon fishing is a way of life. But changes in the climate may be pushing the fish toward extinction. Together with KCTS9 and EarthFix, NewsHour visited the Swinomish Indian reservation to see how they are coping. Continue reading
Jul 17 Watch In Panama, Locals Protest Canadian Copper Mines In Panama, 'New Conquistadors' Protest Canadian Copper Mines… Continue watching