Monthly Archive: September 2016
Earth hits CO2 concentration point of no return, Canada plants a ‘carbon bomb’ Pipeline protesters enter seventh month of Missouri River watershed encampment New California law will limit police use of civil asset forfeiture...
Canada’s government has approved a massive, multi-billion dollar liquefied natural gas project the same week scientists warn the Earth’s climate has passed a grim milestone. Nell Abram has more. Download Audio The earth hit...
This weekend, water protectors will begin their seventh month of occupation near the North Dakota banks of the Missouri River, a watershed for almost 20 million people and thousands of miles of land that...
All photos by Chris Geovanis. Hear her accompanying radio report here. Click on any thumbnail to launch slideshow.
Nationwide, calls for police reform and accountability are multi-faceted, with advocates calling for an end to practices like racial profiling and broken windows policing and a fundamental shift away from criminal justice systems built...
The U.S. has announced it’s lifting all trade sanctions against Myanmar – including those restricting the country’s jade industry. President Obama announced the move as Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi paid a...
The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly today to override President Barack Obama’s veto of a bill that would allow victims of the 9/11 attacks to sue the government of Saudi Arabia. Shannon Young has more....
Just hours before the United Nations Security Council was set discuss health care in armed conflict around the world, warplanes reportedly fired on two more hospitals in Syria. The U.S. has threatened to end...
In Mexico thousands took to the streets throughout the country Monday to mark the second anniversary of the forced disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa teacher training students. The case brought sharp national and international criticisms...
A prominent human rights advocate in Indian-administered Kashmir remains in jail for a second week, detained under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act. His arrest comes amid a public uprising in which government...