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Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show
Major news events throughout the world continue to be largely ignored until they reach tragic proportions. Underreported, a weekly feature on The Leonard Lopate Show, tackles these issues and gives an in-depth look into stories that are often relegated to the back pages.
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Undereported: Troubles in Northern Ireland
Roughly 14 years have passed since the signing of the Good Friday peace accord, which ended decades of bloody conflict in Northern Ireland. But that d...
Underreported: The Syrian Refugee Crisis
As violence escalates in Syria, thousands of refugees are pouring across the border into neighboring countries. International Rescue Committee’s Me...
Underreported: Inside Syria
Donatella Rovera, senior adviser on crisis response for Amnesty International, spent several weeks this spring in 23 of Syria’s towns and villages....
Underreported: Massive Algae Bloom Found Under Arctic Ice
Scientists recently made an unlikely discovery under thinning arctic ice: a massive algae bloom. Kevin Arrigo, a biological oceanographer at Stanford...
Underreported: The Accelerated Drone War in Yemen
A report from the New America Foundation has found that the Obama Administration has dramatically escalated its drone war in Yemen. Peter Bergen talks...
Underreported: Did Slaves Catch Your Seafood Dinner?
Thailand is one of the largest exporters of seafood to the United States. On today’s Underreported segment, Global Post’s senior southeast Asian corr...
Underreported: The Martin Act & Investor Lawsuits
University of Pennsylvania law professor David Skeel explains the recent judicial expansion of the Martin Act of 1921, which now makes it easier for p...
Underreported: Human Guinea Pigs for Pharmaceuticals
On today’s Underreported, directors Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher talk about the people who serve as human test subjects for medications being de...
Underreported: Bear Bile Farming in China
In China, Asiatic black bears are kept in cages for their bile, which is valued in Asian medicine. Jill Robinson, the founder and CEO of Animals Asia,...
Underreported: The Price of Quinoa's Success
Quinoa has become an incredibly popular food in recent years, with prices for the whole grain tripling in the last five years. On today’s Underrepor...
Underreported: NSA's Storage Facility
Wired correspondent James Bamford describes the $2 billion Utah Data Center that is being constructed for the National Security Agency. It’s expected...
Underreported Update: The Democratic Republic of Congo
In November, the Democratic Republic of Congo held presidential elections, even as the security situation there deteriorated. On today’s Underreported...
Underreported: Thorium Reactors
Journalist Richard Martin discusses thorium as a potential nuclear fuel and looks at the efforts to promote it as a new form of green energy.
Underreported: Controversial Livestock Hormone
Helena Bottemiller, a reporter for The Food & Environment Reporting Network, looks at the controversial animal feed additive, ractopamine hydrochlorid...
Underreported: The Stories You Missed in 2011
On this week’s Underreported, Foreign Policy’s Joshua Keating discusses “The Stories You Missed in 2011,” including India’s military buildup and the...
Underreported: The Exploitation of International Domestic Workers
On this week’s Underreported, Human Rights Watch researcher Nisha Varia describes abuses of migrant domestic workers in Asia and the Middle East, an...
Underreported: Fukushima Update
The crisis at the Fukushima reactor in Japan has been out of the headlines, but that doesn’t mean the crisis has been solved. We’ll speak with Dr. Edw...
Underreported: Airport Body Scanners and Cancer
Full body X-ray scanners are now commonplace in airports across America. ProPublica reporter Michael Grabell tells us about a new report that has foun...
Underreported: Intervention in Somalia
Recently Kenyan forces invaded Somalia in a bid to fight the militant group Al-Shaabab. The United States has also been heavily involved in the coun...
Underreported: Intervention in Uganda
Earlier this month President Obama deployed 100 U.S. troops to Uganda in an advisory role to aid the fight against the Lords Resistance Army. Nate H...
Underreported: How Corporations Are Saving Billions in Taxes
In the current economic downturn, governments around the world are looking to crack down on tax loopholes—corporations have been able to take advantag...
Underreported: The Lives of Migrant Farm Workers
When we’re in the supermarket, trying to figure out what to cook for dinner, the issues of immigration and migrant laborers usually aren’t on our mind...
Underreported: Clashes in South Africa
This week major clashes erupted in South Africa over the future of the African National Congress, the country’s ruling party since the end of aparth...
Underreported: Eritrea
Journalist Michela Wrong looks at Eritrea and its president Isaias Afewerki. She has spent 13 years reporting in Africa and is the author of In the Fo...
Underreported: A Secret History of the Bay of Pigs
More than 50 years have passed since the United States sponsored a covert invasion of Cuba that came to be known as the Bay of Pigs. Now, one of the m...
Underreported, Part I: Drought in the Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in 60 years. Already, 10 million people are in urgent need of food in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya a...
Underreported, Part II: Concerns about Terrorism Delay US Aid to Somalia
More than 2.5 million Somalis are now in desperate need of food, but it wasn’t until late Wednesday that the State Department announced that it woul...
Underreported: Deep Sea Mining
This week, a team of Japanese scientists announced that vast deposits of rare earth minerals—considered essential for the production of certain elec...
Underreported: Ongoing Questions on Fukushima
A number of scientists believe that the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima reactors in Japan is much worse than what governments are revealing. Al Jaze...
Underreported: What the WikiLeaks Cables Reveal about Haiti
On this week’s Underreported, Dan Coughlin, reporter for The Nation magazine, Kim Ives, editor for Haiti Liberté, discuss what the WikiLeaks cables r...
Underreported: Boat of Migrant Africans Left to Drift for 16 Days
In late March and early April, a boat filled with dozens of African migrants drifted in the Mediterranean for 16 days with almost no food, fuel or wat...
Underreported: The Influence of Medical Device Makers
Charlie Ornstein and Tracy Weber, ProPublica senior reporters, discuss medical societies and their financial ties to drug and medical device makers. O...
Underreported: Crackdown on Protests in Puerto Rico
Since last summer, there has been a sometimes violent standoff between students at the University of Puerto Rico and the government over an announce...
Underreported: The Evangelical Adoption Movement
On today’s Underreported segment, The Nation’s Kathryn Joyce explains how evangelical Christians are trying to increase the number of international a...
Underreported: The Antarctic King Crab Invasion
Climate change is having dramatic effects on the world’s oceans as ice sheets collapse and the sea becomes more acidic. Warmer temperatures allow some...
Underreported: The Chiquita Papers
It has long been known that Chiquita Brands International made controversial payments to violent guerilla and paramilitary groups in Columbia in the 1...
Underreported: The Acquittal of Luis Posada Carriles
Eighty-three-year-old Luis Posada Carriles is a former CIA operative. He has been connected to the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the funneling of U.S. money t...
Underreported: Indian Point and Water
Concerns about seismic activity at the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant are grabbing the headlines this week, but other issues have been raised in t...
Underreported: Crisis in Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire has been rocked by a political and humanitarian crisis following the disputed presidential election in November. Adam Nossiter, New York...
Underreported: Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Worm?
The Stuxnet virus made headlines when it damaged computers at Iran’s nuclear program. On this week’s Underreported segment, Vanity Fair writer Michael...