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Major news events throughout the world continue to be largely ignored until they reach tragic proportions. Underreported, a weekly feature on The Leonard Lopate Show, tackles these issues an...
Roughly 14 years have passed since the signing of the Good Friday peace accord, which ended decades of bloody conflict in Northern Ireland....
As violence escalates in Syria, thousands of refugees are pouring across the border into neighboring countries. International Rescue Committ...
Donatella Rovera, senior adviser on crisis response for Amnesty International, spent several weeks this spring in 23 of Syria’s towns and vi...
Scientists recently made an unlikely discovery under thinning arctic ice: a massive algae bloom. Kevin Arrigo, a biological oceanographer at...
A report from the New America Foundation has found that the Obama Administration has dramatically escalated its drone war in Yemen. Peter Be...
Thailand is one of the largest exporters of seafood to the United States. On today’s Underreported segment, Global Post’s senior southeast A...
University of Pennsylvania law professor David Skeel explains the recent judicial expansion of the Martin Act of 1921, which now makes it ea...
On today’s Underreported, directors Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher talk about the people who serve as human test subjects for medications...
In China, Asiatic black bears are kept in cages for their bile, which is valued in Asian medicine. Jill Robinson, the founder and CEO of Ani...
Quinoa has become an incredibly popular food in recent years, with prices for the whole grain tripling in the last five years. On today’s Un...
Wired correspondent James Bamford describes the $2 billion Utah Data Center that is being constructed for the National Security Agency. It’s...
In November, the Democratic Republic of Congo held presidential elections, even as the security situation there deteriorated. On today’s Und...
Journalist Richard Martin discusses thorium as a potential nuclear fuel and looks at the efforts to promote it as a new form of green energy...
Helena Bottemiller, a reporter for The Food & Environment Reporting Network, looks at the controversial animal feed additive, ractopamine hy...
On this week’s Underreported, Foreign Policy ’s Joshua Keating discusses “ The Stories You Missed in 2011 ,” including India’s military buil...
On this week’s Underreported, Human Rights Watch researcher Nisha Varia describes abuses of migrant domestic workers in Asia and the Middle...
The crisis at the Fukushima reactor in Japan has been out of the headlines, but that doesn’t mean the crisis has been solved. We’ll speak wi...
Full body X-ray scanners are now commonplace in airports across America. ProPublica reporter Michael Grabell tells us about a new report tha...
Recently Kenyan forces invaded Somalia in a bid to fight the militant group Al-Shaabab. The United States has also been heavily involved in...
Earlier this month President Obama deployed 100 U.S. troops to Uganda in an advisory role to aid the fight against the Lords Resistance Army...
In the current economic downturn, governments around the world are looking to crack down on tax loopholes—corporations have been able to tak...
When we’re in the supermarket, trying to figure out what to cook for dinner, the issues of immigration and migrant laborers usually aren’t o...
This week major clashes erupted in South Africa over the future of the African National Congress, the country’s ruling party since the end o...
Journalist Michela Wrong looks at Eritrea and its president Isaias Afewerki. She has spent 13 years reporting in Africa and is the author of...
More than 50 years have passed since the United States sponsored a covert invasion of Cuba that came to be known as the Bay of Pigs. Now, on...
The Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in 60 years. Already, 10 million people are in urgent need of food in Ethiopia, Somalia and K...
More than 2.5 million Somalis are now in desperate need of food, but it wasn’t until late Wednesday that the State Department announced that...
This week, a team of Japanese scientists announced that vast deposits of rare earth minerals—considered essential for the production of cert...
A number of scientists believe that the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima reactors in Japan is much worse than what governments are revealin...
On this week’s Underreported, Dan Coughlin, reporter for The Nation magazine, Kim Ives, editor for Haiti Liberté , discuss what the WikiLeak...
In late March and early April, a boat filled with dozens of African migrants drifted in the Mediterranean for 16 days with almost no food, f...
Charlie Ornstein and Tracy Weber, ProPublica senior reporters, discuss medical societies and their financial ties to drug and medical device...
Since last summer, there has been a sometimes violent standoff between students at the University of Puerto Rico and the government over an...
On today’s Underreported segment, The Nation ’s Kathryn Joyce explains how evangelical Christians are trying to increase the number of inter...
Climate change is having dramatic effects on the world’s oceans as ice sheets collapse and the sea becomes more acidic . Warmer temperatures...
It has long been known that Chiquita Brands International made controversial payments to violent guerilla and paramilitary groups in Columbi...
Eighty-three-year-old Luis Posada Carriles is a former CIA operative. He has been connected to the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the funneling of U.S....
Concerns about seismic activity at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant are grabbing the headlines this week, but other issues have been rai...
Côte d'Ivoire has been rocked by a political and humanitarian crisis following the disputed presidential election in November. Adam Nossiter...
The Stuxnet virus made headlines when it damaged computers at Iran’s nuclear program. On this week’s Underreported segment, Vanity Fair writ...
Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute and author of World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse ,...
In 1970, there were nearly 650,000 dairy farms in the United States. Today, there are only 54,000 farms—many of them run by large operators...
Detainees held by the United States government at the Guantanamo Bay prison have been administered very high doses of the drug Mefloquine, a...
In 1972, Congress launched the nation’s most ambitious experiment in universal health care: virtually anyone diagnosed with kidney failure,...
Dr. Ron O'Dor, Senior Scientist, Census of Marine Life, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, tells us about the first Census of Marine Life—a 10...
The use of forensic DNA databanks by law enforcement has exploded since the mid 1990s. We’ll examine the implications widespread stockpiling...
Global talks on climate change have been underway in Cancun, Mexico for days now. New York Times columnist Andy Revkin tells the latest on w...
Mira Kamdar, senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and associate fellow at the Asia Society , examines why U.S. agribusinesses are ext...
President Obama travels to India this weekend, and while his trip may come at time of heightened tensions between in the region, but India a...
Hossam Bahgat, founder and director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights , discusses his work to protect civil and religious right...