Rockefeller Foundation

Wetlands and woods are saturated with oil, north of Lake Pontchartrain, after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.

How crises can strengthen cities that make the right choices

Environment

The natural environment might seem like a city’s natural enemy. But using it to a city’s advantage can help counteract the more violent side of Mother Nature.

Cape Horn

A Rockefeller uses his oil legacy to help save the oceans

Environment
Rockefeller fund

The Rockefellers call it quits on oil, divesting themselves from fossil fuel industries

Environment

Lao rice farmers move from subsistence to cash crops

Lessons from smallpox eradication

Health & Medicine

Anti-Apartheid Leader Mamphela Ramphele Announces New Party to Challenge South Africa’s ANC

Global Politics

One of the leading activists from South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement has launched a new party. Mamphela Ramphele says her party will challenge the ANC in the 2014 elections. Anchor Katy Clark gets details from The World’s Anders Kelto in Cape Town.

This Week’s Agenda: NATO Summit, G8 Conference, Rajat Gupta Trial, NAACP’s Gay Marriage Endorsement

The NATO Summit spurs protests in Chicago all week, while European leaders continue talks that began at the G-8 conference over the weekend. The insider trading case against former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta begins this week in New York, as the Senate Banking Committee starts a round of Dodd-Frank hearings. Also, just a few […]

Gupta Faces Insider Trading Charges

Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta surrendered to FBI officials on Wednesday morning. Gupta faces criminal charges in a massive hedge fund insider trading case. He has been under investigation over whether he leaked corporate secrets to Raj Rajaratnam, the co-founder of the hedge fund the Galleon Group. Rajaratnam was sentenced to 11 years in […]

The World

The Green Revolution Plus Thirty

Reporter Bruce Gellerman of member station WBUR in Boston visits the Mexican wheat fields of Norman Borlaug, known as “the Father of the Green Revolution.” Borlaug’s revolutionary approach to plant breeding and high-intensity agriculture helped to feed the world as the population doubled over the past 30 years, and won him the Nobel Peace Prize. […]

The World

High Court Opening = High Stakes for Environment

Some Supreme Court watchers say the environment may have the most to lose when retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s successor takes office.