Dec 14 When Is a Text Message Private? By Quinn Bowman The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a case that could influence how much privacy employees have when sending electronic messages with work devices. The Court will hear arguments in City of Ontario v. Quon, an… Continue reading
Dec 14 Climate Talks Briefly Stall Over Protests From Developing Nations By Maureen Hoch China, India and other developing nations brought U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen to a temporary stop on Monday over demands that wealthy countries discuss much deeper cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions. EU environment spokesman Andreas Carlgren told… Continue reading
Dec 14 Watch Are Rare Earth Minerals Too Costly for Environment? Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News examines how mining rare earth minerals -- considered to be an obscure yet profitable industry, is causing a major environmental dilemma in China. Continue watching
Dec 14 Watch Climate Change Agreement Stifled as Leaders Disagree Efforts to craft a climate change deal in Copenhagen are moving slowly as world leaders clash on key issues. Ray Suarez reports from the Danish capital. Continue watching
Dec 11 Ray Suarez: Monumental Week for Climate Ahead in Copenhagen By Ray Suarez Just keep repeating to yourself: If any of this was easy, Kyoto would have worked. It's been 12 years since delegations from around the world met in Japan to discuss a coordinated global response to rising levels of greenhouse… Continue reading
Dec 10 Judy Woodruff: China Could Make or Break Copenhagen The reporting I've done in the past few days on the Copenhagen summit tells me we may discover one more piece of evidence, as if we needed it, of China's growing global influence. A senior U.S. official at the… Continue reading
Dec 09 Tempers Rise over Danish Text at Climate Summit By Talea Miller Tension between rich and poor countries hovered over climate negotiations in Copenhagen Wednesday, as developing nations fumed over the leak of a climate document drafted by Denmark. The 13-page document, known as the Danish text, was drawn up outside… Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch Climate Pact Elusive in Copenhagen as Stakes Rise Rallying cries for a global reduction in emissions grew louder at an international climate change summit in Copenhagen on Wednesday. Yet as Judy Woodruff reports, a deal is still far from complete. Continue watching
Dec 08 Patchwork Nation: Media Landscape Shifts Online in a Wired Town If there is a community well positioned for the demise of a true local daily, it may be the heavily wired, tech-savvy college town of Ann Arbor, Mich. Continue reading
Dec 07 NOVA: Sunken Wreck May Shed Light on WWII Mystery Today is the 68th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and our colleagues at the PBS science program, NOVA, have released some interesting news of their own about what may have happened on that day. In fact, they strongly suggest that… Continue reading