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Food for 9 Billion
Exploring the challenge of keeping ourselves fed at a time of rapid social and environmental change.
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Alan Weisman
Special Projects
Countdown
Alan Weisman
Special Projects
Countdown
In this monumental piece of reporting, Alan Weisman travels to more than 20 countries, beginning in Israel and Palestine and ending in Iran, on an urgent search for ways to restore the balance between our species’ population and our planet’s capacity to sustain us.
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Sam Eaton
Food for 9 Billion
Carbon-Neutral Lunch
Sam Eaton
Food for 9 Billion
Carbon-Neutral Lunch
Since announcing that it would become the world’s first carbon-neutral country, Costa Rica has been a laboratory for reducing the climate impact of agriculture.
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Sam Eaton
Food for 9 Billion
Costa Rica Farmers See Value in Biodiversity
Sam Eaton
Food for 9 Billion
Costa Rica Farmers See Value in Biodiversity
Scientists in Costa Rica are finding that biodiversity on and around farms can increase yields, lower input needs, and provide protection against environmental stresses.
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WORKING
Profiles of workers in the global economy, broadcast as a special monthly feature on Marketplace.
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Alan Weisman
Special Projects
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman
Special Projects
The World Without Us
How would the Earth respond if humans were suddenly to disappear? How quickly would our cities, our objects, our waste, and the myriad other changes we have wrought disappear – or would they disappear at all? Most urgently, asks this New York Times bestseller, what can we do to lessen the damage we’re inflicting on the only planet we have?
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Worlds of Difference
Stories about people and communities facing critical decisions about who they are and who they want to be.
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Vanishing Homelands
Chronicling the changes to land and people across the Americas since the arrival of Columbus.
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Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero
Vanishing Homelands
Refugees from a Fallen Landscape, Part 2
Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero
Vanishing Homelands
Refugees from a Fallen Landscape, Part 2
Part 2 of a two-part report from Honduras examines attempts by foreign and private relief agencies to regenerate the soil and help farmers stay on their lands.
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Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero
Vanishing Homelands
Refugees from a Fallen Landscape, Part 1
Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero
Vanishing Homelands
Refugees from a Fallen Landscape, Part 1
Part One of a two-part feature about the effects of deforestation and desertification follows poor farmers in Honduras who are fleeing their damaged lands to an uncertain life in Tegucigalpa.
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Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero
Vanishing Homelands
Shrimp Cocktail
Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero
Vanishing Homelands
Shrimp Cocktail
Backed by U.S. government funds, salt flats along the southern Honduran coast have been converted into giant shrimp farms where lax enforcement of environmental, social, and labor laws are the norm.
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Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero
Vanishing Homelands
In Panama, a Clash of Cultures on the Frontier
Sandy Tolan, Nancy Postero
Vanishing Homelands
In Panama, a Clash of Cultures on the Frontier
The construction of a road and hydroelectric dam in eastern Panama has threatened the survival of Guna Indians who live in the area.
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Cecilia Vaisman, Alan Weisman
Vanishing Homelands
Miskito Coast
Cecilia Vaisman, Alan Weisman
Vanishing Homelands
Miskito Coast
On Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast, Miskito Indians and American investors face off in a battle over the future of the region’s resources.