May 28th, 2008 · In a new memoir, author Ta-nehisi Coates recalls growing up in drug-ravaged West Baltimore in the 1980s. Titled The Beautiful Struggle, the book documents the life of his Black Nationalist father, who worked hard to keep his two boys from falling into the drug world that surrounded them.
May 20th, 2008 · Jean Sebastian Matte, the emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders, says the situation is dire for many people in Myanmar and that many people in desperate need of aid haven't received any. While there has been no outbreak of disease yet, he reports that respiratory illnesses and diarrhea are growing more common in the storm-ravaged country. He talks with Michele Norris.
May 19th, 2008 · Myanmar's military government is allowing United Nations officials, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to tour this week the southern delta region flooded by a devastating cyclone. However, the regime continues to resist large-scale foreign aid for the hundreds of thousands of survivors.
May 18th, 2008 · Melissa Block met survivors in the quake-ravaged Sichuan province in southwestern China. Among them was a student who was buried under the rubble, but dug his way out and survived with only a scratch. Block, who was in Chengdu, China, when the earthquake hit last Monday, says people aren't staying inside as aftershocks continue to rumble through the area.
May 11th, 2008 · Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes ravaged parts of Missouri, Oklahoma and Georgia on Saturday, killing more than 20 people. KCUR reporter Frank Morris reports from the small town of Picher, O.K., which was devastated by a tornado.
Apr 23rd, 2008 · A deadly disease that has ravaged bat populations in the Northeast is spreading faster than expected, according to federal researchers, who have confirmed fresh outbreaks of "white-nose syndrome" in Connecticut and eastern Vermont.
Mar 10th, 2008 · California's farmers grow most of the nation's fruits and nuts, but for several years, they've been battling empty beehives ravaged by colony collapse disorder. Now some of the precious remaining hives have gone missing, the victims of a sting of bee bandits.
Dec 13th, 2007 · Wild salmon runs on Canada's West Coast are being ravaged by sea lice linked to fish farms, according to a study whose authors say some kinds of wild salmon will be near extinction if the lice infestations at British Columbia salmon farms continue. By some accounts, the study reflects a dark side of industrial-scale fish farming.