(Earth Focus: Episode 33) Earth Focus looks at why the availability of fresh water is a growing global challenge and at how some innovative solutions are making a difference. ...
Bangladesh is one of the world's most densely populated nations on Earth. And the capital Dhaka is one of Asia's fastest growing cities. News and documentary producer Stephen Sapienza reports...
(LinkAsia: August 12, 2011) The American debt crisis strikes a nerve among global investors, resulting in chaos on the Asian stock markets. China expert Robert Kapp tells us if the...
(Global Pulse: June 25, 2010) The recent announcement of vast mineral wealth in Afghanistan sent salesman-in-chief Hamid Karzai to Japan to pitch the allies, while the mastermind of the minerals...
(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: March 22, 2010) U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton spoke Monday at the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC, expressing concern over new Israeli settlements; she also...
(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: December 15, 2009) Bombers struck yesterday in Iraq, the Afghan capital of Kabul, and in Pakistan. President Hamid Karzai convened a conference on corruption in...
(Al Jazeera English: November 13, 2009) Pakistan suffered three deadly attacks on Friday, just hours apart. A Canadian gold mining company is accused of causing serious environmental damage in Mexico...
Meet Nina and Mickey McCoy, schoolteachers from Inez, Kentucky, as they take their fight against King Coal to Washington. Tired of writing letters to their representatives and getting no response,...
This episode of The United Nations - 21st Century looks at one man's fight against the cocaine market of Brazil; an epidemic wiping out India's baby girls; and the dangers...
(Global Pulse: May 29, 2009) Is there such a thing as clean coal? The industry wants you to think so. But clean doesn't mean non-polluting. The questions around coal's future...
In this clip, filmmaker David Novack discusses the reclamation of mountaintops after being razed by coal-mining. The coal industry, he says, is legally-mandated to restore the mountains, but attempts at...
David Novack thinks a well-deserved lump of coal is headed into the stocking of the "clean coal" lobbyists. Widespread awareness of global warming and grassroots environmentalist movements are voicing their...
Documentary filmmaker David Novack argues that we are all connected to the fight against the coal industry, as about fifty percent of America's electrical power comes from coal.
In this clip, filmmaker David Novack talks about the personal damages caused by the mass-extraction of coal. Maria, an anti-coal activist featured in his film Burning Our Future, has faced...
