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A tanker carrying liquified natural gas unloads its cargo at the port of Yokohama, Japan.  Exports of Pennsylvania shale gas began in the spring of 2018, and are expected to increase.  (Hiroo Saso)
Science

Pennsylvania’s LNG export boom heads to Japan

Abundant drilling of the Marcellus and Utica Shale created a glut of natural gas and drove down prices. Now, new pipelines and export terminals are aiding overseas sales.

7 years ago

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In this Sep. 17, 2018, file satellite image provided by Planet Labs, buildings are seen around the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. This is one of a number of internment camps in the Xinjiang region. Experts say the Chinese government has detained up to 1.8 million Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities for what it calls voluntary job training. But a classified blueprint leaked to news organizations shows the camps are precisely what former detainees have described: Forced re-education centers. (Planet Labs via AP, File)
Community

Secret documents reveal how China mass detention camps work

The classified documents lay out the Chinese government’s deliberate strategy to lock up ethnic minorities even before they commit a crime.

7 years ago

This screenshot taken from the Xinjiang Legal News Network website shows the former head of the Xinjiang Communist Party Political and Legal Affairs Commission, Zhu Hailun, giving a speech at a work conference in Urumqi, China on February 2, 2017. Classified documents, issued under the authority of Zhu and some annotated and signed personally by him, were leaked to a consortium of news organizations. The confidential documents lay out the Chinese government's deliberate strategy to lock up ethnic minorities to rewire their thoughts and even the language they speak. (AP Photo)
Community

The man behind China’s detention of 1 million Muslims

Newly revealed, confidential documents show that the official, Zhu Hailun, played a key role in planning and executing a campaign that has swept up a million or more Uighurs.

7 years ago

A container dock of Yangshan Port in Shanghai. About 99% of the shoes sold in America are made overseas, with China being the largest manufacturer by far. (Anonymous/AP Photo)
NPR
Community

Opinion: Why you should think about Uighurs the next time you put on shoes

The forced imprisonment of more than a million Muslim Uighurs in detention camps in the Xinjiang region of western China may make Americans feel outrage and sadness.

7 years ago

Ambassador Gordon Sondland, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, center, appears before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Impeachment testimony analysis

We discuss the impeachment hearings, the testimony, what we learned, and what it means for the inquiry.

Air Date: November 22, 2019 10:00 am

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Girls carry containers of water filled from the local communal tap Zimbabwe, which is in the grip of a nationwide drought that has been linked to climate change. (Cynthia R. Matonhodze/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
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Health

Why climate change poses a particular threat to child health

When it comes to global health, the world has made remarkable strides over the past two decades.

7 years ago

Gabriel Toto is a 'bayakou' or latrine cleaner, in Haiti. (Marie Arago for NPR)
NPR
Health

Even researchers were shocked by how tough life is for sanitation workers

The work is dirty, dangerous ...and thankless. Sanitation workers in lower-income countries often endure grueling conditions to perform their duties.

7 years ago

Ships carrying ethane from Pennsylvania sail the Firth of Forth, a river estuary emptying into the North Sea, to Grangemouth. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Money
StateImpact Pennsylvania

U.S. fracking helps to push a global plastic boom

Despite Scotland’s fracking ban, imported American shale gas is key to the economy in one town. To some, it’s an uneasy state of affairs.

7 years ago

Protesters with umbrellas use steel barricades to block a road as they march through Sha Tin District in Hong Kong. (Kin Cheung/AP Photo)
The Pulse
Science

Can science offer police a better way to handle protests?

Intimidation and police force enraged protesters in Hong Kong. Is there a different way to manage masses of people?

7 years ago

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Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, arrives on Capitol Hill, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019, in Washington, as she is scheduled to testify before congressional lawmakers on Friday as part of the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Former U.S. envoy says she was warned she was being targeted

The former envoy, who was recalled from her post by Trump, testified that a senior Ukrainian official told her that "I really need to watch my back."

7 years ago

Noah Nasiali-Kadima, foreground, takes a selfie with members of the Africa Farmers Group during a tour of a member's farm in Machakos County, Kenya.
(Noah Nasiali-Kadim)
NPR
Community

How 75,000 abandoned cabbages inspired a huge online forum for farmers in Africa

Making lemonade out of life's lemons is one thing.

7 years ago

Pope Francis blesses the crowd at the Vatican. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo)
Community

Pope declares Vatican’s Secret Archive not so secret anymore

Pope Francis has declared that the Vatican Secret Archive isn't so secret after all.

7 years ago

In the BBC documentary about sexual harassment at universities in Nigeria and Ghana, several sources and reporters wore masks onscreen to preserve their anonymity. (BBC Africa Eye)
NPR
Education

How undercover journalists exposed West Africa’s ‘sex for grades’ scandal

"I'm a 28-year-old who never got to finish school because of one thing," says Kiki Mordi. "It wasn't because I wasn't brilliant, I was a high flyer when I was growing up.

7 years ago

President Trump says that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, has been killed in a U.S. Special Operations mission in northwestern Syria. (Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump says Islamic State leader was killed in special operations raid

President Trump says that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, has been killed in a U.S. Special Operations mission in northwestern Syria.

7 years ago

Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, members of Amazon indigenous populations walk during a Via Crucis (Way of the Cross) procession from St. Angelo Castle to the Vatican. In foreground is a wooden statue portraying a naked pregnant woman. (Andrew Medichini/AP Photo)
Lifestyle

Pope’s Amazon synod proposes married priests, female leaders

Catholic bishops from across the Amazon called Saturday for the ordination of married men as priests to address the clergy shortage in the region, an historic proposal.

7 years ago

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