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With more and more entrepreneurs starting up food trucks in Los Angeles — and corporate trucks like Domino's getting into the act — some fear the once-underground foodie scene has been co-opted. And some food bloggers and trend watchers are predicting the movement's demise.

Lopez Lomong came to the United States with two dreams: to compete in the Olympics, and to graduate from college.

Airs Wednesday, August 13, 2014 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

This is America, where Thanksgiving is portrayed in popular culture as a time for gatherings of loving families and friends, holding hands while saying grace over a roast turkey, passing casseroles and footballs, reminiscing about the past and dreaming of the future.

President Obama will visit New Orleans Thursday to review recovery efforts more than four years after Hurricane Katrina. Residents say much of the city remains in survival mode. But by most accounts, the pace of recovery has improved under the Obama administration.

Gulf Coast residents wrote the book on how to survive a hurricane. But on Friday, they pitched in to protect the region from a disaster unlike any they've seen. A massive oil slick — spawned by the April 20 explosion of a deep water oil rig on the ocean floor — is threatening the ecology and economy of the region.

Officials in the emerging nation hope people will one day think of it for its wildlife, not war. So it's taking steps to track the animals for anti-poaching efforts. South Sudan's economy now relies on oil, "but these animals will be there for life if we manage them well," an official says.

Airs Sunday, October 23, 2011 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

Most of the time, the nuclear world is a quiet, hidden-from-sight community of scientists and engineers. But when a disaster like Japan's happens, they are called on to explain what went wrong.

Since the tsunami damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant 150 miles outside of Tokyo, Japanese citizens have grown more resistant toward nuclear energy. Analysts believe that any attempts at reform will face stiff resistance from the country's powerful nuclear energy establishment.