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Environment

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Environment

Music with a message in Mozambique

Living on Earth

April 25, 2008

Singer-activist Feliciano Dos Santos of Mozambique founded the NGO, Estamos, to bring clean water and toilets to his war-torn nation, spreading the message of hygiene through the music of his band, Massukos.

Environment

Malaria website

The World

April 25, 2008

The World's Clark Boyd reports on a new effort to help combat malaria in Africa by using the Internet

Environment

Biofuel vs. Food?

The World

April 24, 2008

Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Jean Ziegler, the United Nations "Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food" about how biofuel production may be contributing to the global food crisis.

Environment

Wheat vs. Poppies in Afghanistan

The World

April 24, 2008

Host Lisa Mullins explains how the rising cost of food is encouraging Afghan poppy farmers to switch to legal crops.

Business, Economics and Jobs

Targeted advertising

The World

April 24, 2008

The World's Clark Boyd reports that a British company has devised a way to advance online "targeted advertising,ï¿½ and the company says it's anonymous, but privacy advocates are skeptical.

Environment

Geo answer: Belgium

The World

April 24, 2008

The answer to today's Geo Quiz is Belgium. The World's David Leveille explains that the country's national airline has decided to slow down their airplanes to cut fuel consumption.

Arts, Culture & Media

Gorilla cell phone game

The World

April 23, 2008

The World's Clark Boyd reports on "Silverback," a cell phone-based video game designed to raise awareness about the threats facing mountain gorillas in Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.

Environment

Bee trouble in Britain

The World

April 23, 2008

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Tim Lovett of the British Beekeeping Association about the danger that honey bee populations might collapse in Britain; the same problem wiped out millions of bees in the United States last year.

Environment

Rick Weiss

April 23, 2008

Faith talks to Washington Post reporter Rick Weiss about new ways in which genes themselves are testifying in court and the future of DNA testing in the criminal justice system.

Business, Economics and Jobs

Bottled water and the environment

The World

April 22, 2008

The World's Julia Kumari Drapkin reports that critics have long complained about the environmental costs of bottled water, and those costs are a concern when the bottled water come to the US from the Pacific islands of Fiji

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