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With Stakes Rising, Can We Stop Catastrophic Climate Change?
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, debate is again raging in the United States about the dangers of climate change. Now two high-profile reports warn that without big changes we’re headed for catastrophic climate disruption.
Preserving India’s Hampi Ruins
The Indian government recently took a drastic step to protect the ancient ruins in Hampi by bulldozing homes and businesses of people near the site.
No Twinkies? No Problem: The Rising Power of Mexico’s ‘Grupo Bimbo’
Does the idea of a world without Twinkies horrify you? Hostess, the company that makes the snack treat, may be going under. However, there’s a Mexican company that would like to offer some alternatives…
Libya’s Pearl of the Desert
An ancient town at the borders dividing Tunisia, Algeria and Libya is nicknamed “the pearl of the desert.” This UNESCO World Heritage site was famous for its annual autumn festival celebrating, among other things, the local dates harvest and Tuareg culture.
Cancer’s Global Reach
Cancer kills more people in low- and middle-income countries than AIDS, malaria, and TB combined, but it remains a disproportionately underfunded disease. In this series, veteran health journalist Joanne Silberner examines cancer’s toll in the developing world.
Egypt Pledges Support for Gaza
Egypt’s Prime Minister visited Gaza this morning, and pledged Egypt’s support for the Palestinians in their struggle against Israel. Anchor Aaron Schachter finds out more on the visit’s significance from reporter Noel King in Cairo.
Frank Jacobs and his Strange Maps
Strange indeed. Frank Jacobs is the map-obsessed blogger behind “Strange Maps”. Jacobs has spent a lifetime pondering maps of all kinds and finally found an outlet: cyberspace.
As Arctic Warms, Scientists Explore Links to Extreme Weather
Months before both this year’s record Arctic ice melt and Hurricane Sandy, a climatologist identified changing weather patterns that suggest links between the two seemingly separate events. Sam Eaton reports from New Jersey.
Della Mae Bluegrass in Pakistan
The Bluegrass group Della Mae brings American down-home music to Pakistan and Central Asia.
‘Somewhere Between’: Adopted from China, Coming of Age in US
About 80,000 girls have been adopted from China into American families in recent decades. A new documentary, “Somewhere Between,” follows four of those girls as teenagers coming to terms with who they are and where they come from. The World’s Jeb Sharp caught up with the filmmaker and three of her subjects at a recent screening in Boston.
Ahmed Gallab’s Sinkane: Searching for Sudanese Roots
Ahmed Gallab was born in Sudan and raised in the US. In his early 20s he gained a measure of indie-rock fame playing with groups such as Of Montreal and Yeasayer. But it’s his solo project Sinkane that seems to be drawing him back to his African roots.
New York Sikhs Organize Help for Sandy Victims
Members of Indian Sikh communities from around New York have organized to help those hardest-hit by Hurricane Sandy. Sikh volunteers are in Queens, providing hot food for displaced people in need of a meal.
Damon Albarn’s Soundscape Gives the BBC Something to Celebrate
These past few weeks have difficult for the people who run the BBC (which of course is one of the co-producers of The World). No-one at the Beeb feels like celebrating a birthday. But the BBC is 90 years old. And, awkward or not, it’s marking the day—November 14, 1922—when it made its first broadcast. [...]
Villa Aurora: House of Creativity and Refuge in Los Angeles
Villa Aurora in the Pacific Palisades district of Los Angeles was a refuge for German Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger and his wife Marta after they fled the Nazis in the 1940s. Now, as Julia Simon reports, it provides a temporary home for other persecuted writers from around the world.
‘New’ House in England to be Made Entirely from Waste Materials
We’re looking for a British city where a cool recycling project is about to get underway. A team of architects and recycling experts is planning to build a house — entirely out of trash. The building site is in a city on the south coast of England in the county of East Sussex. Name that coastal city.
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