After four years of pandemic shutdowns, the grand Gion Matsuri festival resumed in all its glory this July, with bells, gongs and flutes chiming atop massive floats decked out in lavish tapestries and treasures.
Canada is emerging as the largest supplier of energy to the United States. It's electricity, natural gas and oil are all being shipped to America, but environmentalists there and here say it's coming with a hefty price tag.
In recent years, Canada has quietly become the largest exporter of energy to the US and some Canadians aren't so happy about the environmental consequences for their country. Brian Mann reports on the emergence of Canada as an energy superpower.
The news about climate change comes rather like snowflakes in a blizzard-from all directions at once, and accumulating in such overwhelming amounts and impact that it can be hard to know where to start digging out [...]
Activists say accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant caused by too-cozy relationship between government and power companies, not earthquake.
Nations big and small pledged money and action to combat climate change, but many question whether promises will be kept.
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with former US climate negotiator Kathleen McGinty. She says a climate agreement is still possible in Copenhagen.
The answer to our Geo Quiz today is Kyoto, Japan. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Nori Akashi and Tomoko Inuishi about the Daikon radish festival in Kyoto.
At this week's G-8 world summit, climate change is an unexpected guest at a meeting usually filled with talks of nuclear disarmament, the poor, and trade networks. Here with his take is Jason Burnett, former energy and climate official with the EPA.
Predicting the changes that could accompany rising global temperatures and what the future might hold.