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By the Numbers: Life and Death at Foxconn by Lois Beckett for ProPublica An investigative series by the New York Times and a performance piece by Mike Daisey featured on This American Life have put the spotlight on Foxconn, the Taiwanese company whose massive Chinese factories manufacture [...]
Raging against the foreclosure machine ‘Kafkaesque’ nightmares plague homeowners facing foreclosure by Ben Hallman for iWatch News Like millions of stories from the great recession, this one begins with homeowners struggling to keep up with a mortgage payment [...]
by EnergyNOW! Wind power is one of America’s cleanest and most abundant energy resources. But it only works when the wind blows, making it less reliable than fossil fuels or nuclear power. Can wind power overcome its challenges [...]
The rise and rise of the landless movement in Brazil by Hannah Smith for The Bureau of Investigative Journalism At first sight it looks like a festival. The makeshift tents hung with colourful hammocks, the rousing Brazilian beats [...]
Can Ghana Survive an Oil Spill? by Christiane Badgley for iWatch News The new oil industry is changing life in Ghana and there are significant environmental concerns related to Ghana’s fast-track development of deep-water offshore drilling.
Turning the population tide in the Philippines By Sam Eaton for CIR This story also appeared on PBS NEWSHOUR and American Public Media’s Marketplace. The Philippines’ swelling population is causing fishing villages to embrace birth control for the [...]
EPA Sees Risks to Water, Workers In New York Fracking Rules by Joaquin Sapien for ProPublica New York’s emerging plan to regulate natural gas drilling in the gas-rich Marcellus Shale needs to go further to safeguard drinking water, [...]
The units work by sounding an in-car alert if the scanner comes across a license plate of interest to police, whereas before, patrol officers generally needed some reason to take an interest in the vehicle, like a traffic [...]
Dear PublicHerald.org readers: As we look ahead at this important year, we’d first like to thank all of our readers. The unfettered nature by which you share, invest in, and contribute to +Truth and +Creativity energizes our original [...]
Avey Tare (a.k.a. David Portner) released his solo debut, Down There, in 2010. It spoke in swamp to a cloud of critics that lamplighted it for intense, dark, heavy, experimental and soggy sound motion. I’d say the album blows [...]