• A look at the top science stories and breakthroughs of 2023

    A look at the top science stories and breakthroughs of 2023

    Dec 31, 2023 02:00 PM EST

    ... the trajectory of ocean decline.” That includes a High Seas Treaty, agreed upon in March after years of effort, to provide more oversight of international waters. The treaty carves out ways to share benefits from genetic resources dug from the deep, and to create marine protected areas far from any ...

  • How countries are trying to tackle the plastic pollution problem together

    How countries are trying to tackle the plastic pollution problem together

    Dec 04, 2022 10:35 PM EST

    ... to recycle fewer toxins in the air. And then there are different kinds of things they can do once you're done with plastic, actually recycling it, or at least limiting the flows into the oceans, which are a really major problem and one that's getting worse. Amna Nawaz ...

  • Bold single-use plastic ban kicks Europe’s plastic purge into high gear

    Bold single-use plastic ban kicks Europe’s plastic purge into high gear

    Jun 11, 2021 10:10 PM EST

    ... all, with researchers collecting an average of 274 pieces of plastic refuse per 100 meters of shoreline. And beneath the waves, microplastics have turned coastal waters into toxic “plastic soups.” In an all-out push to clean up Europe’s beaches — one plank in the European Union’s trailblazing efforts ...

  • How should companies navigate polarized politics in the Trump era?

    How should companies navigate polarized politics in the Trump era?

    Feb 10, 2017 01:56 AM EST

    ... s comments today about Ivanka Trump fueled a new round of criticism and concerns for the companies involved. So, how should businesses navigate these news waters? Our economics correspondent Paul Solman explores that with his weekly installment of Making Sense. PAUL SOLMAN: The Super Bowl, politicized this year through ads ...

  • Trump’s GOP opponents get nowhere fast at convention

    Trump’s GOP opponents get nowhere fast at convention

    Jul 19, 2016 01:20 AM EST

    ... thing that is different, as you talk to people in the delegations, for a lot of people, this is their first convention. There really is recycling of the human -- the people who are here, this is their first time for a whole chunk of them. JUDY WOODRUFF: Some people very ...

  • PBS NewsHour full episode May 9, 2016

    PBS NewsHour full episode May 9, 2016

    May 10, 2016 12:06 AM EST

    ... protect the state’s controversial bathroom bill. Also: Amy Walter and Tamara Keith talk politics, how Saudi Arabia plans to diversify its economy, signs of reconciliation in a rebuilt Bosnian mosque, the Boston Globe uncovers sex abuse at private schools and why electronic recycling may do more harm than good.

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    From Ball and Chain to Cap and Gown: Getting a B.A. Behind Bars

    Jul 26, 2011 10:33 PM EST

    ... 40 years for robbery and assault, got his bachelor's in comp lit in 2009, a master's last year. He reads the German philosopher Walter Benjamin? SALIH ISRAIL, inmate: Yes. Yes. Actually, I used him for an essay that I wrote. PAUL SOLMAN: An essay on how French poet ...

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    On Tuesday's NewsHour...

    Feb 16, 2010 09:34 PM EST

    ... explores the rising tide of anti-Washington sentiment across the country. Her guests: Stuart Rothenberg, Editor and Publisher of the Rothenberg Political Report; and Amy Walter, Editor-in-Chief of The Hotline. EGYPT RECYCLING: Special Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Cairo on innovative approaches to resolving the Egyptian ...

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    Extended Interview: Don Hewitt

    May 25, 2004 04:00 AM EST

    Well, do you know who really is responsible for the big money thing? Barbara Walters broke the million-dollar barrier. Terry, I remember the day when Walter Cronkite called me into his office and said, close the door, I got something to tell you. He said I just got a ...

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    Don Hewitt's Perspective

    May 25, 2004 04:00 AM EST

    ... it other things, beyond economic pressure, when you look at the television news? Is it the phenomenon of the 24-hour cable news and the recycling of the product? I mean, is that ... what's been the impact of that? DON HEWITT: You deal with something called attention span. And ...