Sep 20 Watch Adm. Allen on Oil Cleanup: 'We're Negotiating How Clean Is Clean' Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen speaks with Jeffrey Brown about the permanent sealing of BP's blown-out oil well, what has been learned to prevent or contain future disasters, and what must be done to clean up the Gulf of… Continue watching
Sep 20 Oil Well Killed, But Legal and Environmental Battles Just Beginning The Development Driller III rig used to drill the relief well (Photo: Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg via Getty Images) After a weekend of final sealing and testing, the federal government on Sunday declared the Macondo oil well officially dead. Continue reading
Sep 20 Monday: Afghan Elections Marred by Fraud, Violence; Bombs Kill 36 in Iraq Afghan election workers move ballot boxes to the Independent Election Commission warehouse in Kabul on Monday. Photo by Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images. The Free and Fair Elections Foundation of Afghanistan, an independent observer group, is voicing "serious concerns" about… Continue reading
Sep 17 Fidel Castro's Favorite Dolphin Show Jeffrey Goldberg's recent interview with Fidel Castro may have raised questions about Castro's commitment to the Cuban model of socialism, but the Cuban leader was absolutely clear on one thing: he enjoys a good dolphin show: We went… Continue reading
Sep 17 Friday: Afghans Prepare to Vote Amid Violence; Gulf Well Close to Being Sealed An Afghan election worker and a donkey carry voting materials to a remote mountainous village in Shotol. Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images. On the eve of Saturday's parliamentary elections, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is urging citizens to vote despite… Continue reading
Sep 16 Weighing the (Very Light) Nuts and Bolts of the X Prize's Edison2 For even the biggest projects, the devil is always in the details. In late August, the NewsHour profiled a small group of race car enthusiasts in Lynchburg, Va., who have made what they say is a revolutionary new… Continue reading
Sep 16 Bacteria Gobbling Natural Gas in the Gulf By Hari Sreenivasan While attention on the Gulf has mostly focused on oil, the explosion and spill also released tremendous amounts of natural gas. David Valentine, a microbial geochemistry professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his research team… Continue reading
Sep 16 Ultra-Light Cars Reap Rewards of X Prize Edison2's Very Light Car won the $5 million top prize of the X Prize competition to build an uber-efficient car. The car is engineered to be ultra-light, all the way down to the lug nuts. The Virginia-based… Continue reading
Sep 15 Evan Williams Explains New Twitter Interface By Hari Sreenivasan For the 1 percent of users who woke up to a different Twitter experience Wednesday morning, it was probably the biggest change they have ever seen to the real time information service. Twitter has approximately 160 million users and there… Continue reading
Sep 14 Can We Both Feed the World in a Sustainable Way and Feed it Quality Food? Question: As a society, we in America seem proud of our desire to help others, and that is of course laudable. In recent years, there is a movement toward more environmentally-friendly food for a number of reasons, nutritional and otherwise. Continue reading