SINKING BELOW SEA LEVEL IN BANGLADESH
Children in Bangladesh are being taught what has become a critical survival skill--the ability to swim. NBC's Ian Williams reports.
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Children in Bangladesh are being taught what has become a critical survival skill--the ability to swim. NBC's Ian Williams reports.
The ancient Andean glaciers could disappear by 2022--taking with them the runoff that provides 80 percent of the freshwater for the country’s most populous areas. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports.
Rising temperatures are creating desperate struggles over water and food in Kenya. NBC's Martin Fletcher reports.
A warmer, wetter climate is triggering a worldwide outbreak of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue fever. NBC's Ian Williams reports from Malaysia.
As rivers recede and resources dry up, the world’s most powerful militaries are scrambling to prevent global warming from becoming a global security threat. NBC’s Jim Maceda reports.
June 13: On opposite sides of the Potomac River sit symbols of U.S. electricity, both present, and possibly future: smokestacks of coal-fired power and a personal wind turbine. NBC’s Anne Thompson reports.
June 23: The Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States, is in critical condition. After more than 30 years of rescue efforts, trailblazing work and hundreds of millions of tax dollars, the Bay's future remains anything but clear. In this first part of a multi-part series we kick off, NBC's Wendy Reiger says that despite good intentions, the Bay project still needs oxygen.