Science, Tech & Environment
PRI's The World
October 26, 2016
You can't make beer without hops, but climate change is threatening the future of the crop in a place that grows a quarter of all the world's supply — Washington state. That's got growers and brewers there and around the world scrambling to make changes to improve the resilience and sustainability of their industry.
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Health & Medicine
Part IV: The Infectious Connection
PRI's The World
December 06, 2012
Cancer can be triggered by infectious diseases, especially in impoverished parts of the world. Scientists in the US and Africa are working to unravel how viruses and bacteria cause malignancies.
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Science, Tech & Environment
Worried about radioactive 'Fukushima' fish in the US? Don't be, scientists say
PRI's The World
January 20, 2014
Nearly three years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, many consumers in the US remain concerned about radiation in fish from the Pacific Ocean. One Seattle fisherman finally got his fish tested, and found what many scientists have also found: there's nothing to worry about.
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Science, Tech & Environment
How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda
PRI's The World
February 24, 2017
Would you buy wolf-friendly meat? That's one idea Carol Bogezi has to help cattle ranchers in Washington state learn to live with wolves.
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Conflict & Justice
This Seattle boy was just six when he was asked to protect an undocumented family
PRI's The World
April 13, 2015
What it’s like for kids to understand that some of their friends live in the US “without papers”? A Seattle boy named Ronan found out when his best friend told him that he was in the United States without legal status.
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Business, Economics and Jobs
Hey, you want nonprofits to act more like businesses? Treat them like businesses.
December 30, 2015
Either nonprofits are fully businesses, with all the rights that entails, says this Seattle nonprofit leader, "or else we are beautiful and complex snowflakes of equity and justice and need different considerations." But stop judging the sector by the standards of business when it doesn't get many of the benefits of the for-profit sector.
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Conflict & Justice
The people who pick your berries in Washington will now be represented by a union
PRI's The World
October 19, 2016
But farm workers in Mexico say they are still fighting for better wages and working conditions while harvesting the berries sold in US markets under the Driscoll’s brand name.
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Science, Tech & Environment
The climate for making beer is changing, so brewers and hops growers are, too
PRI's The World
October 26, 2016
You can't make beer without hops, but climate change is threatening the future of the crop in a place that grows a quarter of all the world's supply — Washington state. That's got growers and brewers there and around the world scrambling to make changes to improve the resilience and sustainability of their industry.
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Science, Tech & Environment
Beavers are being looked at as little climate change fighting machines
Living on Earth
March 26, 2015
Beavers are little climate change activists, much like the human subjects of the documentary, “The Beaver Believers.”
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Business, Economics and Jobs
Seattle becomes first US city to try dockless bike sharing, the system that’s transforming China
PRI's The World
August 21, 2017
Seattle had bike sharing, but the system didn’t work out. But the new system — dockless bike sharing — is already off to a hot start.
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Science, Tech & Environment
The road to Arctic oil drilling runs through Seattle. People there are trying to block it.
PRI's The World
June 08, 2015
President Obama has given Shell the green light to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean, but activists and politicians in Seattle are throwing up as many stop signs as they can as the drilling rig preps there for its journey north. It's the latest flashpoint in the growing international anti-fossil fuel movement.