May 19 Watch Report on Deadly W.Va. Mine Blast Castigates Massey for Safety Lapses In the worst U.S. mining disaster in four decades, 29 trapped miners were killed after an explosion deep inside the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. Ray Suarez speaks with NPR's Howard Berkes about a new report on the… Continue watching
May 11 Japan’s Triple Disaster, By the Numbers On March 11, Japan's northeastern shore was struck by a massive earthquake followed by a violent tsunami. Within days a third disaster was unfolding, a crisis at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power facility. Continue reading
Apr 26 Watch Many Gulf Coast Residents Still Frustrated by Handling of BP Oil Spill Tom Bearden reports from the Gulf on residents' attitudes. Continue watching
Apr 15 Watch A Year After BP Oil Spill Began, No Easy Answers on Gulf Coast’s Future It's been nearly one year since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf. Continue watching
Mar 31 Watch Tsunami in the Northwest? Japan Disaster Offers Wake-Up Call to Coastal U.S. Spencer Michels reports on new attention to disaster preparations in the U.S. Continue watching
Mar 30 Watch NOVA Explores Science Behind Japan’s Earthquake, Tsunami NOVA looks at the scenes behind the earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japan. Continue watching
Mar 29 Watch 11:42 Revisiting Chernobyl: A Nuclear Disaster Site of Epic Proportions By PBS News Hour The nuclear crisis in Japan has renewed interest in the 1986 nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl in Ukraine. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien travels to the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, which is approaching its 25th anniversary. Continue watching
Mar 28 Watch Reporting on Chernobyl, 25 Years Later 25 years after the Chernobyl disaster, how is the area coping? Miles O'Brien reports. Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch Order, Resilience Mark Japanese Response to Compound Crises The response to the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crises has been marked by resilience and order among Japanese citizens. Jeffrey Brown talks with the Stimson Center's Yuki Tatsumi about how Japanese culture has factored into the disaster aftermath. Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch Spent Fuel Pools: Assessing the Threat at Damaged Nuclear Plant American and Japanese officials have offered sharply different assessments of the situation at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. Judy Woodruff weighs the threat of the spend fuel pools with the University of Southern California's Najmedin Meshkati and the Institute… Continue watching