US Prisoners Suing to Watch Total Eclipse after Lockdown Order Prisoners in the U.S. state of New York have taken legal action against the state corrections department. They started the measure over the state's decision to lock down prisons during ne...
UN Estimates World Wastes 19 Percent of Its Food 联合国估计全球每年浪费19%的食物 A United Nations report says that even with hunger being a problem, the world wastes about 19 percent of the food it produces. 联合国的一份报告称,...
Bamboo farming is on the rise in Uganda. The strong and fast-growing crop is seen by the East African government as having real growth possibility. Along a 3-kilometer stretch of the river Rwizi, environment protection officers recently planted new b...
Debate over Whether Protections Could Have Saved Baltimore Bridge In 2007, when a 274-meter-long container ship struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, it stood firm. No one died, either on the ship or the road above. The bridge's supports were...
Cherry Trees to Be Removed in Washington Improvement Project Washington D.C. officials say some of the city's famous cherry trees will need to be cut down as part of a major improvement project. Up to 1.5 million people are expected to visit America'...
Small Living Space Returns as Housing Prices Rise in US Barbara Peraza-Garcia is from Venezuela. She lives in a single-room apartment in Seattle, Washington with her family. The family includes her partner and their two small children. They do not ha...
Coffee Growers Worry about New EU Anti-deforestation Rules Coffee growers in many countries are worried about a new European rule designed to prevent deforestation. Deforestation describes when developers cut down trees to make room for crops, buildi...
Kenyans Build Sand Dams to Keep Water In southeastern Kenya earlier this year, people from Kasengela village built a special kind of dam. The barrier is called a sand dam. It reduces water flow and increases the amount of wet sand behind it. Sand dam...
Ship Crash Collapses Major Highway Bridge in Baltimore A container ship smashed into a major bridge in Baltimore, Maryland early Tuesday, causing it to collapse. The accident sent several vehicles and people into the river and closed one of the busie...
Hungry Gazans Eat Wild Plant to Survive The United Nations Security Council is demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Some members are concerned that a famine might have begun. The territory's civilians are reportedly eating a wild plant...