• 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 ...

  • Second World Cup victory gives France a needed boost

    Second World Cup victory gives France a needed boost

    Jul 16, 2018 01:32 PM EDT

    ... French national symbol — and a shirt with Mbappe's No. 10 number."We've had lots of problems in France these past years," he said, recalling deadly terror attacks. "This is good for the morale ... Here, we are all united. We mix. There is no religion, there is nothing, and ...

  • 'I don’t think there’s a safe place in Yemen anymore'

    'I don’t think there’s a safe place in Yemen anymore'

    May 04, 2018 08:26 PM EDT

    ... suspected cholera cases in Yemen. Cholera is a diarrhoeal infection caused by eating contaminated food or water, and is easily preventable with access to clean water but can kill within hours if left untreated. Fourteen and a half million people in Yemen lack access to clean water and safe sanitation ...

  • Decision over a tiny baitfish could sway the largest East Coast fishery

    Decision over a tiny baitfish could sway the largest East Coast fishery

    Nov 13, 2017 05:56 PM EDT

    ... fish, the decision is obvious. There’s no doubt he will be at Monday’s meeting. “My son will never catch a weakfish,” Friedrich said, recalling that two decades ago he would catch hundreds of them. He doesn’t want the same thing to happen to striped bass. Friedrich pointed ...

  • What a fashion line made from food will teach you about waste

    What a fashion line made from food will teach you about waste

    Nov 08, 2017 09:15 PM EDT

    ... garment from harvest to attire, she constructs high-fashion dresses entirely out of vegetable matter. It started as an exploration in building by hand, though, later evolved into a commentary on the fresh today, expired tomorrow mindset. She hopes her work sends a message about the ephemerality of fashion and ...

  • In Cuba, mystery deepens over attacks on U.S. diplomats

    In Cuba, mystery deepens over attacks on U.S. diplomats

    Sep 14, 2017 10:37 AM EDT

    ... from sound, has confounded the FBI, the State Department and U.S. intelligence agencies involved in the investigation. Some victims now have problems concentrating or recalling specific words, several officials said, the latest signs of more serious damage than the U.S. government initially realized. The United States first acknowledged ...