Fuel costs and supply shortages have caused a spike in food prices across Africa — prompting calls for an agricultural revolution on the continent. Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan discusses efforts to address the crisis. See the full report on NewsHour.
China declared success Tuesday in preventing a lake — formed by landslides from the massive May 12 earthquake — from overflowing its banks and flooding downstream communities. See the update on NewsHour.
Federal officials have cleared Florida and California tomatoes, but are still trying to locate the source of a 17-state salmonella outbreak linked to three types of raw tomatoes. See the update on NewsHour.
More than 25 million Americans with health insurance did not have sufficient coverage to cover their medical expenses in 2007, according to a study released Tuesday in the journal Health Affairs. In the News on NewsHour.
When Columbia University revealed a planned multi-billion-dollar expansion to their campus, a number of local business owners got caught in the fray. Without invoking eminent domain, Columbia tried to negotiate to get them to give up their properties–with a few holdouts refusing. Now one of the more vocal holdouts, Anne Z. Whitman, finally reached an [...]
Thirty-six deaths, 2,000 victims of abuse and torture and 3,000 displaced Zimbaweans have been documented in a 69-page report released Monday by Human Rights Watch (HRW). See Wide Angle’s analysis here.
The newest investigative journalism nonprofit went online yesterday — it’s called ProPublica: see some of their breaking news stories and investigations. Who knows — maybe they’ll want to team up with the PBS documentary series Exposé: America’s Investigative Reports or NOW on PBS. If you could pitch an idea for an investigation, what would it [...]
Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain offered their solutions for the sluggish economy this week, with Obama emphasizing an active government role in providing assistance and McCain calling for lower taxes and spending cuts.
The African Environmental Film Foundation is working on a documentary about a man on a quest to save sea turtles.
Why does contemporary art cost so much money? What roles do narcissism and trophy-gathering play? Is the current boom truly unprecedented? How did Ai Weiwei become more valuable than Tiepolo? Watch here….
