Germany is one of the world's leaders on green energy, but the country is still digging up dirty brown coal, and destroying towns that sit on top of it.
Reporter Eric Niiler examines the doomed South Pole expedition of British explorer Robert Scott, which took place nearly one hundred years ago.
Malaria is a disease of the developing world, but some Americans are being infected with malaria intentionally to help medical research. Reporter Eric Niiler profiles volunteers in a US Army study of an experimental malaria vaccine.
Russian president Dmitri Medvedev asserted himself this week by firing Moscow's powerful mayor. Now he faces another test � what to do about Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Reporter Eric Niiler speaks with Khodorkovsky's lawyers.
Mexico is celebrating the bicentennial of its independence with parties across the country. The celebrations mark the 1810 uprising that paved the way for the end of Spanish rule in 1821. Eric Niiler reports from Mexico.
A group of US senators charge that BP pressured the British government to release a Libyan man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. They say the release was part of a deal to allow BP drilling rights. Eric Niiler reports from Washington.
Eric Niiler reports from Washington on tomorrow's White House meeting on climate and energy legislation. President Obama has invited key senators in hopes of breaking a logjam on Capitol Hill.
The International Whaling Commission meets in Morocco this month to rewrite the international treaty on whaling. As Eric Niiler reports, getting all the parties to agree won't be easy.