http://www.internationalreportingproject.org en irp-irp@jhu.edu Copyright 2010 2010-07-30T14:33:35+00:00 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1585 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1585#When:14:33:35Z Peter Thomson is the environment editor for “The World” on BBC/PRI. In this video Thomson discusses his impressions of China's vast population and the effects on the environment. Also, ... Environment, Video 2010-07-30T14:33:35+00:00 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1583 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1583#When:15:39:07Z Over 50% of Chinese live in rural areas, farming the land. Runoff from fertilizers, pesticides and animal waste is polluting China’s rivers and contaminating produce. A few Chinese farmers ... Environment, Video 2010-07-20T15:39:07+00:00 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1582 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1582#When:12:38:01Z The 24th and current President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf photo by: Jonathan Ernst, 2001 IRP Fellow November 7-18, 2010 The International Reporting ... Story 2010-07-15T12:38:01+00:00 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1581 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1581#When:19:21:18Z Hello TMM readers. Today on World AIDS Day, the Kenyan government announced it's launching an intensive three-week drive to provide HIV tests in workplaces, at home, during the evening, and ... Health, Story 2010-07-08T19:21:18+00:00 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1580 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1580#When:14:46:31Z Though apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994, economic injustices between blacks and whites remain unresolved. As revealed in Yoruba Richen’s incisive Promised Land, the ... 2010-06-29T14:46:31+00:00 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1579 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1579#When:13:47:54Z The woman in a red tunic and black leggings, like others of China's sophisticated younger generation, strides down a pedestrian shopping street in Chengdu. She ... Social Issues, Story 2010-06-22T13:47:54+00:00 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1563 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1563#When:17:26:40Z São Paulo state's Atibainha Reservoir feeds the Cantareira water system, one of Latin America’s biggest. Water utility ... Environment, Story 2010-06-08T17:26:40+00:00 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1562 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1562#When:19:52:17Z SHANGHAI, China - The mammoth World Expo 2010, which just opened here, offers a terrific opportunity for U.S. public diplomacy - reaching out to millions of Chinese via our exhibition. Yet ... Economy & Business, Social Issues, Story 2010-06-01T19:52:17+00:00 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1561 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1561#When:18:59:01Z Dianchi Lake, in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, used to be one of the Middle Kingdom’s worst environmental disaster zones. Years of industrialization and high-intensity farming, ... Environment, Story 2010-06-01T18:59:01+00:00 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1560 http://www.internationalreportingproject.org/stories/detail/1560#When:14:43:26Z Plain Dealer Chief Editorial Writer Joe Frolik has just returned from a Gatekeeper Editors trip to China, organized by the International Reporting Project, an independent journalism program ... Economy & Business, Story 2010-06-01T14:43:26+00:00