Projects
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Launched July 10, 2017
More than 30 years after the world's worst industrial accident, the people of Bhopal are still dealing with its long-term and health and environmental fallout. Whose responsibility is it to help them?
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Launched July 3, 2017
Thousands of lone minors fled war to find shelter in Sweden, a once exceptionally welcoming country. Now, asylum regulations are tightening, leaving refugees uncertain of the future.
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Launched June 29, 2017
Chile is internationally known as a producer of world-class wines. However, the effects of desertification on vineyards have a dire impact on the wine industry.
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Launched June 26, 2017
The fastest growing chain of schools in the world is a highly controversial for-profit company backed by Silicon Valley investors which promises to educate the poorest of the poor. |
Launched June 23, 2017
Cancer is a terrifying word to anyone, but for women living in developing countries, it can be truly devastating. In Haiti, women must overcome immense challenges to seek diagnosis and care.
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Launched June 20, 2017
In Rwanda, increased floods, droughts, and landslides have caused deaths and destroyed homes. How are mountain gorillas and people living near their habitat impacted by and adapting to climate change?
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Launched June 19, 2017
About two decades too late, the Internet is cautiously breaking Cuba's spell of isolation. What impacts on culture and identity does the island's defiant re-connection to the outside world bring? |
Launched June 15, 2017
When unmarried sex is outlawed, pregnancy out of wedlock is proof of a crime. Women are jailed—along with their babies.
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Launched June 15, 2017
Tumultuous reform at home and aggressive foreign policy abroad spell dramatic change for a conservative Kingdom.
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Launched June 13, 2017
A high-tech bus route was billed as the solution to a chaotic, disorganized transit system. Can everyone involved in that system get on board?
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Launched June 2, 2017
Over the past three decades, thousands of Canadian Aboriginal women have been murdered or gone missing. The government has begun investigating why indigenous women are so vulnerable to violence.
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Launched May 31, 2017
Detours is a free-ranging weekly podcast that explores the working lives of multimedia storytellers and the issues that engage them around the world.
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Launched May 30, 2017
Many Philippine roads are death traps. Why are they so deadly? And what can be done to make them safer?
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Launched May 29, 2017
Years of unmitigated contamination from Zambia's largest lead mine have created a toxic nightmare for the residents of Kabwe, the country's second largest city.
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Launched May 18, 2017
It is estimated that up to one million people own exotic pets in China. Trade in these animals is linked to species loss in some of the world’s threatened ecosystems.
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Launched May 5, 2017
China is seen as a poster child for smog, but it is pushing back against air pollution with a wind and solar power rollout that also has big ramifications for the fight against climate change.
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Launched May 2, 2017
South Sudan is the world’s newest nation but ethnic violence, economic collapse and famine are spiralling. Millions of lives, and the future of the country, are at stake.
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Launched April 23, 2017
Multinational Alcoa, in a restructuring, departs struggling Suriname after 100 years. The loose ends include a hydroelectric dam, two company towns, a long-loyal workforce, and a sputtering economy.
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Launched April 21, 2017
The French elections are the next major test for gauging the global impact of populism, nativism and Islamophobia.
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Launched April 19, 2017
As Myanmar emerges from half a century of isolation to join the globalized world, Doug Bock Clark and Corey Pattison will report on the forces struggling to shape the country's future.
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Launched April 17, 2017
Mexicans call it The Wall of Shame. Few people north of the border ever ask, what does the wall look like from Mexico, not just to ordinary Mexicans but those whose homes literally touch the wall?
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Launched April 14, 2017
Each winter hundreds of thousands of Indians migrate north to man the world's second largest brick industry. They're promised opportunity, but many are bonded into debt.
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Launched April 12, 2017
"A Postcard Home" is a collaborative series exploring a remarkable chapter in human migration through the viewpoint of a child. |
Launched April 10, 2017
Terrorized by Boko Haram for years, millions of people in northeastern Nigeria have fled to crowded camps and cities and are suffering from a deadly combination of severe malnutrition and infection.
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