Tackling Ocean Challenges

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Published on Aug 6, 2014

(Earth Focus: Episode 66) Oceans support life, yet they are overfished, polluted, and, with global climate change, are becoming increasingly acidic. The XPrize Ocean Initiative seeks to solve some of these critical threats by bringing in teams from around the world for high-profile competitions to find the best new technologies and stimulate investment in research and development. After the massive Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Wendy Schmidt Oil Clean up XCHALLENGE in 2011 awarded $1.4 million to a team that demonstrated an oil recovery cleanup rate four times greater than the industry’s previous best recovery rate. A second $2 million Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE is spurring innovators to develop accurate and affordable pH sensors to deepen our understanding of ocean acidification, which threatens the growth of shellfish and coral reefs.

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Algae Overload Infects Global Waterways

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Published on Aug 6, 2014

This week 400,000 people in Toledo, Ohio, could not drink the water. The city’s water supply from Lake Erie was polluted with a toxin linked to the overgrowth of algae. While the water is now safe to drink, harmful algal blooms are not going away any time soon in Ohio or elsewhere in the United States and around the globe. VOA’s Rosanne Skirble has the story.

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Ebola Outbreak Spreading Unchecked

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Published on Aug 6, 2014

The Ebola outbreak has claimed more than 930 lives as world health leaders scramble to contain it and researchers focus on an experimental, unproven drug. (Aug. 6)

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Why Americans should REALLY worry about Ebola…

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Published on Aug 6, 2014

Thom Hartmann talks with Dr. Arthur Caplan, Professor of Bioethics-NYU Langone Medical Ctr / Author-most recent book, Contemporary Debates in Bioethics Website: http://pophealth.med.nyu.edu/

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Time to Repudiate Reaganomics…

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Published on Aug 6, 2014

Thom Hartmann says Reaganomics meant the end of competition in America.

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WHO calls for emergency meeting on Ebola outbreak – YouTube

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Published on Aug 6, 2014

Two Americans infected with the Ebola virus and being treated in Atlanta have received an experimental drug, Z-Mapp, that had not previously been tested on humans and is in extremely limited supply. The WHO announced the latest rising death toll from the outbreak and said it is convening a medical panel to consider the ethics of making the drug more widely available. Judy Woodruff reports.

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Return to Fukushima with Miles O’Brien

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Published on Aug 6, 2014

Three years after the disaster at Fukushima, science correspondent Miles O’Brien returned to the Daiichi nuclear plant for an exclusive look at the site. Follow Miles on a never-before-seen tour of Daiichi’s sister site, Fukushima Daini, which narrowly avoided a meltdown during the Tohoku earthquake. As the country debates turning its reactors back on, Miles asks: will Japan have a nuclear future?

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US Takes Different Approach to Africa Than China

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Published on Aug 6, 2014

President Barack Obama’s effort to engage Africa brought together the largest summit of African leaders ever held in Washington. But China has hosted such summits before, and the U.S. gathering highlights what some see as a belated U.S. effort to catch up and expand its economic ties with Africa. VOA White House correspondent Luis Ramirez reports.

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A Conservative on Climate Change

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Published on Aug 6, 2014

It may be considered a heresy for a Republican member of Congress to say climate change is real and that we should do something about it. But that’s what Bob Ingliss (R-SC) did. He was a member of the House Science Committee and a Ranking Member of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee. Since leaving Congress in 2011, he devoted himself to convincing conservatives to support a revenue neutral carbon tax. He also founded the Energy and Enterprise Initiative. He explains what factors helped shape his views on climate change. Excerpts from his keynote address to the Citizens Climate Lobby, June 23, 2014. Washington, DC.

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Should an experimental drug be used to treat Ebola?

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Published on Aug 6, 2014

The treatment of two Ebola-infected Americans with an experimental drug, Z-Mapp, raises the question of whether it has potential for widespread use in combating the outbreak in West Africa. Judy Woodruff gets debate on the topic from Dr. Robert Garry of Tulane University School of Medicine and Laurie Garrett of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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