Mar 19 Texas Dispatch: ‘Cloud Juice’ Is One Man’s Solution to the Drought By Saskia de Melker This week, the NewsHour will be looking at water shortages in Texas as part of our new series, Coping with Climate Change. You can watch our report from Texas on Thursday's NewsHour broadcast, and take a look at our second… Continue reading
Mar 19 Watch Texas Dispatch: Drilling Deeper for Water For more on this story, go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/… Continue watching
Mar 16 Watch ‘Cloud Juice’ is One Man’s Solution to Drought For more on this story go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/… Continue watching
Mar 09 Fukushima Survivor: I Want ‘To Breathe Freely Again’ EmbedVideo(2889, 482, 304); Nuclear technician Carl Pillitteri was one of 38 Americans at the Fukushima nuclear power plant when an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan's eastern coast and triggered a radiation leak at the reactor. It's taken Pillitteri… Continue reading
Mar 08 Endangered Animals Say ‘Cheese’ for Nature Photographer EmbedVideo(2856, 482, 304); For most portrait photographers, odds that their subjects will defecate in front of them, rip their backdrops or charge at the camera tend to be low. But that's just a day's work for Joel… Continue reading
Mar 07 O No! Climate Change Shortens Canada’s Pond Hockey Season By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy The Rideau Canal Skateway in Ottawa, the world's largest natural frozen skating rink, had to close before March 1 this year, making its skating season a short 28 days; Flickr photo courtesy National Capital Commission The Rideau Canal, which… Continue reading
Feb 28 Watch Ethiopia: A Battle for Land and Water A controversial resettlement program in Ethiopia is the latest battleground in the global race to secure prized farmland and water. Correspondent Cassandra Herrman reports as part of the Food for 9 Billion series, a NewsHour partnership with the Center for… Continue watching
Feb 21 Climate Expert Assumed False Identity to Obtain Documents Photo by Getty Images. Fallout over internal memos that were leaked from the conservative Heartland Institute rattled the climate world again this week, when a climate researcher confessed to lying in order to obtain and distribute them. Continue reading
Jan 10 Does the Desire to Make More Money Increase Economic Inequality? Photo of Steve Jobs in 2010 by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Tuesday's query: Name: John Livingston… Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch Under the Sea Near Antarctica, ‘a Riot of Life’ Discovered in Super-Heated Water Scientists discovered many new species on the floor of the Southern Ocean near Antarctica -- something they're describing as a "riot of life." Jeffrey Brown speaks with former oceanographer Mark Schrope about the newest known species of sea life found… Continue watching