Jul 19 Watch Floods, Fires, Storms Are Fodder for Centuries of Poems Jeffrey Brown and Yang discuss the poetic perspective of the beauty and power of nature. Continue watching
Jul 12 Watch Sweltering Heat Wave Roasts 24 States, Feeds Wildfires A heat wave blasted half of the U.S. Tuesday and triple-digit temperatures roasted Americans in cities in the Midwest and South. Gwen Ifill reports on the unrelenting hot weather, which broke a series of records and triggered heat warnings and… Continue watching
Jul 12 Karzai's Half-Brother Killed in Afghanistan, Heat Wave Hits 23 States (Video: Karzai Brother Killed by Bodyguard) Ahmed Wali Karzai, half-brother to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and head of the Kandahar provincial council, was shot and killed by his bodyguard at his home Tuesday. The Taliban claimed responsibility… Continue reading
Jun 28 Food Prices Hit Small Town Indonesia By Talea Miller Families in Marunda, Indonesia are facing declining salaries just as global food prices are on the rise. Continue reading
Jun 24 Watch Flood Threat Creates 'Psychological Roller Coaster' in Minot, N.D. The Souris River in Minot, N.D., hit a record high Friday and kept on rising. Margaret Warner and Minot City Council President Dean Frantsvog discuss what residents and the city are doing to quell the threat from flood waters. Continue watching
Jun 23 France to Withdraw From Afghanistan, North Dakota Bracing for Floods Following President Obama's speech Wednesday evening, in which he announced the withdrawal of 33,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan over the course of the next 12 months, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said his country will begin pulling its… Continue reading
Jun 20 Watch 'Apache 8' Follows All-Women Firefighters On and Off the Reservation Hari Sreenivasan talks to filmmaker Sande Zeig about her documentar, "Apache 8". Continue watching
Jun 20 'Apache 8' Fight Arizona Wildfires For 30 years, the all-female Apache 8 unit has protected their reservation from fire and also responded to wildfires around the nation. Continue reading
Jun 10 Watch News Wrap: Ariz. Firefighters Ramp Up Battle Against Wallow Fire In other news Friday, firefighters in eastern Arizona hurried to make the most of improved conditions in their battle against the Wallow wildfire. Also, health officials announced that bean sprouts from a German organic farm were the source of the… Continue watching
Jun 09 Watch 'Up in Smoke' Film Examines Perils of Slash and Burn Agriculture In "Up in Smoke," filmmaker Adam Wakeling follows ecologist Michael Hands as he introduces Honduran farmers to the inga tree, his solution to problems caused by slash and burn agricultural practices. The documentary is part of a series of independently… Continue watching