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Peru

Trying to save their glacier

  Pilgrims have journeyed to Peru's glacier pilgrimage for hundreds, perhaps a thousand years. Now the glacier's sacred ice is melting into thin air.

Anne Thompson blogs
  In Peru, melting glaciers lead to water wars
Bangladesh
Sinking below sea level

  Dec. 7: With the surrounding waters rising due to global warming, children in Bangladesh are being taught what has become a critical survival skill--the ability to swim.

Ian Williams blogs



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Saving the Bay

Video series on Nightly.msnbc.com
Saving the Chesapeake Bay

  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.

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