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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the BBC’s Liz MacKean about a possible settlement in a class action lawsuit against multinational company Trafigura. The company is accused of illegally dumping toxic waste in the West African nation of Ivory Coast, making tens of thousands of people sick.
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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Michael McElroy, lead author of a study that suggests China could meet ALL of its electricity needs for the next 20 years using ONLY wind power.
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Correspondent Murray Carpenter reports on a dispute along the US-Canadian border that’s got fisherman in Maine worried about a tiny herring known as the alewife.
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Our daily geography puzzler.
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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Paul Sereno, a palaeontologist at the University of Chicago, about a newly discovered dinosaur that scientists think may be a smaller and earlier version of the giant Tyrannosaurus rex. A fossilized skeleton of “raptorex” was found in Inner Mongolia — the answer to our Geo Quiz.
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A 92-year-old woman has hit the top of the British album charts. Dame Vera Lynn beat out the competition with a newly-released collection of songs that were hits 70 years ago. The World’s Laura Lynch has the story.
