World / Development
The Mom-and-Pop Water Shop
Power Player / by / December 8, 2009
Microbiologist Ranjiv Khush and hydrologist Jeff Alberts are bringing an entrepreneurial approach to an age-old dilemma: how to bring clean, safe water to the developing world.
Now In Development
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A Natural Obsession
Organic foods are exploding in popularity. But fears of biotechnology—and a widespread mistrust of science—won’t help efforts to create a truly sustainable agriculture.
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Lessons for Science Envoys
Sheila Jasanoff examines President Obama’s Middle East science envoy program and offers five crucial tips on what scientists should avoid overseas.
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A Universal Truth
The universality of basic science may be the deepest link between the US and the Muslim world.
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Sowing Africa’s Green Revolution
Small-scale farmers are Africa’s greatest asset—
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Malaria: Five New Weapons
Profiles of the most promising and innovative approaches to fighting malaria, from a living drug pump to strategic computer models.
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A Not-So-Silent Spring
The evidence is growing of long-term health problems related to spraying DDT in homes in the developing world.
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Case Study: Troubles in Kenya
On the eastern coast of Kenya, controversy erupts over plans to turn a biodiversity hotspot into farmland for Qatar.
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Hungry for Land
Growing food in foreign lands has a long history. But the 21st century version of outsourced agriculture presages something fundamentally new.
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Why Environmentalism Needs High Finance
Conservationists may wish money were no object, but if nature is to survive, economic incentives and biological imperatives must align.
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Banking the Monsoon
In a small village in the center of Gujarat, India, a society grows from clean water and satellite maps.
Feature
In Defense of Difference
Scientists offer new insight into what to protect of the world's rapidly vanishing languages, cultures, and species.
Reporter
Slow Burn
Since 1962, a coal fire has been raging beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania, and it may continue burning for centuries. When the very ground beneath your feet catches fire, how can you extinguish the blaze?
Reporter
Frozen Foodies
The South Pole may be the most desolate region on Earth. But even at the bottom of the world, people have to eat. Here’s how they do it in Antarctica.
Seed Debate
Food Fight, Conclusion
What's the surest path to sustainable food security?Highly efficient farming that draws on the arsenal of modern technology? Diversified agriculture driven by the conservation of nature and culture?In their closing statements, our debaters remain steadfast in their opposing stances.
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Ideas
I Tried Almost Everything Else
John Rinn, snowboarder, skateboarder, and “genomic origamist,” on why we should dumpster-dive in our genomes and the inspiration of a middle-distance runner.
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Ideas
Going, Going, Gone
The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
Earth-like Planets Aren’t Rare
Renowned planetary scientist James Kasting on the odds of finding another Earth-like planet and the power of science fiction.
