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  • African Politics, And Afros, In 'My First Coup D'Etat'
    Ghana's Vice President John Dramani Mahama has written a new memoir of growing up during what he calls Africa's "lost decades," the dfficult years after independence. It's not all politics, though: Mahama also writes about enjoying James Brown and traditional village dances.
  • Oceanside Water Restrictions Lifted
    Water restrictions in Oceanside have been lifted, city officials announced today.
  • Group Claims SDG&E Wants To Retroactively Charge Customers For 2007 Wildfire Liability
    A consumer group claims that if If San Diego Gas & Electric gets its way, customers could be paying several hundred dollars more a year for electricity.
  • Physicist/environmentalist Vandana Shiva believes in soil not oil. Traveling around the world, “Dirt! The Movie” delves into the fascinating history of this lowly substance and shows how its mistreatment can result in natural disasters.
    INDEPENDENT LENS: Dirt! The Movie
    Airs Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV
  • As Global Population Grows, Water Matters More
    Clean, fresh water is an essential element to life — not only do people and animals depend on it, but it also sustains many businesses and agriculture. The majority of the fresh water used worldwide goes to irrigation, and the need is expected to rise with the growing global population.
  • Did Climate Change Drive Human Evolution?
    Researchers believe that humanity's extraordinary ability to adapt to different environments and build tools was in part the result of drastic shifts in the Earth's climate. From centuries of drought to devastating monsoons, humans found a way to adjust to nearly everything.
  • Men bathe in a branch of the Artibonite River outside Saint-Marc. Haiti's cholera outbreak in 2010 began about 60 miles upstream from here.
    After Bringing Cholera To Haiti, U.N. Plans To Get Rid Of It
    On the third anniversary of Haiti's devastating earthquake, the country is laying plans to rid itself of the cholera epidemic that followed in its wake. Most scientists now think Nepalese soldiers unwittingly spread the pathogen in Haiti when they joined a United Nations peacekeeping force.
  • Still Home Sweet Home More Than A Century Later
    The Homestead Act of 1862 granted free farms to almost any settler who struck out west. A German peasant named Frederick Wohler received the deed to 80 acres of farmland in north-central Kansas 138 years ago this weekend. And today, the Wohlers are still there.
  • High grain prices and increasing yields have been an economic windfall for farmers. Low stockpiles, the use in ethanol production and orders from China have driven up demand, and are expected to keep corn prices high.
    For Corn Farmers, There's Gold In Them There Fields
    Demand from the ethanol and livestock industries, big orders from China and a forecast of lower crop yields all mean one thing: Corn prices are soaring. That's welcome news for farmers. But some aren't sure when to sell because they fear they'll miss the boat on even higher prices.
  • Lake Oroville, the main reservoir for the Calif. water project system, is 25 percent below average and at 64 percent of capacity. (Photo courtesy of Association of California Water Agencies)
    San Diego Faces Water Supply Challenges
    Climate Change, Drought and Endangered Fish Create "Perfect Storm"
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