• The race for electric vehicle parts leads to risky deep-ocean mining

    The race for electric vehicle parts leads to risky deep-ocean mining

    Aug 04, 2021 07:07 PM EDT

    ... who leads the deep-sea mining initiative at the World Wildlife Fund in Geneva. Adding more minerals into the market, she added, could perversely make recycling less attractive. With Nauru’s move pushing the ISA to finalize its regulations sooner rather than later, critics are concerned that those regulations won ...

  • WATCH: Rep. Raskin chokes up talking about Capitol attack

    WATCH: Rep. Raskin chokes up talking about Capitol attack

    Feb 09, 2021 08:38 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The congressman’s voice cracked and he paused to drink from a bottle of water as he told of apologizing to his daughter for bringing her to the U.S. Capitol on the day a deadly mob overran it. Watch Raskin’s remarks in the player above. But ...

  • How Leah Chase became a 'driving force' of inspiration for chef Marcus Samuelsson

    How Leah Chase became a 'driving force' of inspiration for chef Marcus Samuelsson

    Dec 04, 2020 10:19 PM EDT

    ... whether she had intended to close the restaurant following the storm’s destruction. The restaurant had flooded with about 5 and a half feet of water inside. “I lost everything but the art on the wall,” Chase told NOLA.com, recalling the aftermath. Chase’s answer wasn’t to close ...

  • News Wrap: Thousands detained in Belarus as post-election protests continue

    News Wrap: Thousands detained in Belarus as post-election protests continue

    Aug 12, 2020 10:40 PM EDT

    ... Authorities deployed troops and imposed curfews. Tensions between the Beni Amer tribe and the Nuba tribe date back to 2019, and stem from disputes over water and other resources. Back in this country, an FBI investigation is under way after an Air Force helicopter was shot at from the ground ...

  • How ash and debris are choking Australia’s rivers

    How ash and debris are choking Australia’s rivers

    Mar 03, 2020 04:44 PM EDT

    ... fish mortality along more than 40 miles of the upper Murray River, even in its large main channel, where pollution would normally be diluted. “People don’t associate fire with water,” he said. “For most people, it seems hard to understand that fire impacts water — and how it impacts water.”

  • How U.S. hospitals cleaned up their toxic trash

    How U.S. hospitals cleaned up their toxic trash

    Feb 09, 2019 12:44 AM EDT

    His team tried to demonstrate that much of the potentially infectious waste could be reduced by reusing, reprocessing, and recycling, and that alternative technologies could work just as well at killing pathogens as incinerators. Gradually, health care providers realized that making sustainable changes -- such as switching to machines called autoclaves ...

  • News Wrap: Rosenstein will reportedly leave DOJ when new attorney general is confirmed

    News Wrap: Rosenstein will reportedly leave DOJ when new attorney general is confirmed

    Jan 09, 2019 11:50 PM EDT

    ... better pay. Protesters shut down factories and blocked roads on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka. That set off clashes with riot police, who used water cannons and batons to disperse the crowds. Local reports said that one demonstrator was shot dead. In the Philippines, a colossal crowd of Catholic ...

  • Death of black security guard by white police officer draws call for investigation

    Death of black security guard by white police officer draws call for investigation

    Nov 13, 2018 11:33 PM EDT

    A 73-year-old night watchman at a recycling center was fatally shot by officers in 2012 in Florida after they spotted him carrying a gun when they arrived in response to a call of an intruder. Police later said the man was not wearing anything that identified him as ...

  • Loss of Chinese export market drives new ideas for repurposing recyclables

    Loss of Chinese export market drives new ideas for repurposing recyclables

    Oct 11, 2018 10:25 PM EDT

    (LAUGHTER) Paul Solman: So, you can't be serious. This is heaven? Michael Orr: Yes, to some of our residents, this is heaven. Paul Solman: Michael Orr runs recycling for Cambridge,where more than a few highly motivated recyclers like Singh reside, classy book exchange club, classy somewhat bigger ...

  • Resisting the African ‘brain drain’ that has created a health care crisis

    Resisting the African ‘brain drain’ that has created a health care crisis

    Aug 28, 2018 10:30 PM EDT

    Fred de Sam Lazaro: Third-year student Patience Nafulla says the clinical experience has already given her a fulfilling experience, recalling one new mother's deep gratitude after a difficult delivery. Patience Nafulla: I talked her through it. When I came back the following day, she knelt down for me ...