Science Aug 16 Watch Ecuador Exposes Rain Forest and its Inhabitants to Oil Extraction Effort Ecuador Exposes Rain Forest and its Inhabitants to Oil Extraction Effort…
Apr 18 Watch Helping a Small Town Recover After a Texas Plant Explosion Helping a Small Town Recover After a Texas Plant Explosion…
World Mar 09 Watch Fukushima Survivor: ‘I’ve Hardly Smiled This Whole Year’ Carl Pillitteri was one of 38 Americans at the Fukushima plant when the earthquake hit. Describing the "demonic" sounds he heard and the pit of fear he felt inside the turbine building that day, Pillteri recently spoke with Alex Chadwick,…
Health Jul 26 A Day in the Life of Japan’s ‘Nuclear Gypsies’ More than 2,500 contract workers, lured by the promise of guaranteed work during an economic downturn, brave dangerously high radiation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. By Talea Miller
Jul 20 Watch Indonesian Plant Shows Promise for Male Birth Control A plant that reduces fertility, long used by Indonesian men, is being tested as a possible daily male birth control pill. 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 23 Watch After Japan Crisis, What’s Next for U.S. Nuclear Policy, Plants? As Japan struggles to bring the damaged Fukushima nuclear reactor under control, new questions are surfacing on where U.S. nuclear development stands. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports. Continue watching
Mar 23 Watch Elevated Radiation Levels Detected in Tokyo Tap Water Japanese officials warned Tokyo residents to avoid giving tap water to infants after tests revealed radiation levels exceeded safe limits. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News reports on the latest problem stemming from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. Continue watching
Mar 18 Watch Japan’s Crises: A Critical First Week Review of the events following the devastating earthquake that struck Japan a week ago. Continue watching