Undereported: Troubles in Northern Ireland
Roughly 14 years have passed since the signing of the Good Friday peace accord, which ended decades of bloody conflict in Northern Ireland....
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Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show
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...
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20 of 317 episodesUnderreported: The Syrian Refugee Crisis
As violence escalates in Syria, thousands of refugees are pouring across the border into neighboring countries. International Rescue Committ...
Underreported: Inside Syria
Donatella Rovera, senior adviser on crisis response for Amnesty International, spent several weeks this spring in 23 of Syria’s towns and vi...
Underreported: Massive Algae Bloom Found Under Arctic Ice
Scientists recently made an unlikely discovery under thinning arctic ice: a massive algae bloom. Kevin Arrigo, a biological oceanographer at...
Underreported: The Accelerated Drone War in Yemen
A report from the New America Foundation has found that the Obama Administration has dramatically escalated its drone war in Yemen. Peter Be...
Underreported: Did Slaves Catch Your Seafood Dinner?
Thailand is one of the largest exporters of seafood to the United States. On today’s Underreported segment, Global Post’s senior southeast A...
Underreported: The Martin Act & Investor Lawsuits
University of Pennsylvania law professor David Skeel explains the recent judicial expansion of the Martin Act of 1921, which now makes it ea...
Underreported: Human Guinea Pigs for Pharmaceuticals
On today’s Underreported, directors Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher talk about the people who serve as human test subjects for medications...
Underreported: Bear Bile Farming in China
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...
Underreported: The Price of Quinoa's Success
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...
Underreported: NSA's Storage Facility
Wired correspondent James Bamford describes the $2 billion Utah Data Center that is being constructed for the National Security Agency. It’s...
Underreported Update: The Democratic Republic of Congo
In November, the Democratic Republic of Congo held presidential elections, even as the security situation there deteriorated. On today’s Und...
Underreported: Thorium Reactors
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...
Underreported: Controversial Livestock Hormone
Helena Bottemiller, a reporter for The Food & Environment Reporting Network, looks at the controversial animal feed additive, ractopamine hy...
Underreported: The Stories You Missed in 2011
On this week’s Underreported, Foreign Policy ’s Joshua Keating discusses “ The Stories You Missed in 2011 ,” including India’s military buil...
Underreported: The Exploitation of International Domestic Workers
On this week’s Underreported, Human Rights Watch researcher Nisha Varia describes abuses of migrant domestic workers in Asia and the Middle...
Underreported: Fukushima Update
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...
Underreported: Airport Body Scanners and Cancer
Full body X-ray scanners are now commonplace in airports across America. ProPublica reporter Michael Grabell tells us about a new report tha...
Underreported: Intervention in Somalia
Recently Kenyan forces invaded Somalia in a bid to fight the militant group Al-Shaabab. The United States has also been heavily involved in...
Underreported: Intervention in Uganda
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...