Apr 23 Friday: Greece Formally Requests IMF-EU Bailout; Oil Rig Sinks in Gulf A poster next to a National Bank of Greece calls for civil servants to strike against austerity cuts. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images.) Greece's national debt crisis reached a tipping point Friday, as its prime minister formally asked the… Continue reading
Apr 22 Gizmodo’s Tale of New iPhone; Is New Droid Really ‘Incredible’? Stop us if you've heard this one. So an Apple employee walks into a bar ... and walks out leaving behind what is believed to be the next generation iPhone. Long story short, tech blog Gizmodo paid for the… Continue reading
Apr 22 Two Companies Make It Easy Being Green For Earth Day, we take a look at two companies in the music industry that have made environmentally-friendly practices a priority. Continue reading
Apr 22 Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary Marked with Concerts, Idea Exchanges By Larisa Epatko Countries around the world celebrated the 40th Earth Day on Thursday and throughout the week with activities such as fashion shows featuring recycled materials, seed plantings at the Shanghai Zoo and musicians in Morocco playing songs about the Earth. Continue reading
Apr 21 ‘Plastiki’ Sets Sail to Raise Awareness of Ocean Pollution On March 20 the Plastiki, a 60-foot-long catamaran made entirely of recycled plastic, set sail from San Francisco bound for Sydney, Australia. The vessel is the brainchild of environmentalist and British banking heir David de Rothschild. The Rundown spoke… Continue reading
Apr 20 Government Should Set Limits on Salt in Food, Report Says Americans consume unhealthy amounts of salt, and in order to help them cut back the government needs to begin regulating sodium levels in processed food, according to a new report by the National Academies of Science's… Continue reading
Apr 19 Marcia Coyle: Supreme Court Weighs Privacy Limits of Texting at Work By Quinn Bowman Marcia Coyle, NewsHour regular and Washington correspondent for the National Law Journal, spoke with us Monday afternoon about oral arguments heard before the Supreme Court earlier in the day. Here is an excerpt of our conversation. On Monday's NewsHour,… Continue reading
Apr 19 American Experience Looks at History and Future of ‘Earth Days’ On April 22, 1970, Americans celebrated the first Earth Day. The nationwide day of celebrations and demonstrations marked the beginning of a decade of environmental action, including such landmark legislation as the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act. Continue reading
Apr 19 O’Brien of ‘This Week In Space’ on Obama Space ‘Revolution,’ Privatization By Chris Amico Miles O'Brien made his second visit to NewsHour Plus to talk about the impact of President Barack Obama's speech to NASA and where the space agency's future may lead. The first NASA budget released by the administration appeared to… Continue reading
Apr 16 Meteorologist on Ash and Airplane Risk By Larisa Epatko The Icelandic volcano, located under a glacier, is spewing water vapor and fine-grained ash that can be damaging to aircraft engines. Derrick Ryall of the British Meteorological Office explains the challenges of measuring the size of the plume, where it… Continue reading