To cope with growing population, China may have to turn to the potato

May. 23, 2011
Increasing urbanization has put strains on the Chinese agricultural system. The labor-intensive rice crop remains the quintessential Chinese dish, but some scientists and policy advocates are beginning to push potatoes.

Chicago to China?

May. 23, 2011
As American companies search for ever greater profits, the road most traveled seems to lead to China.  It’s a country the last mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, visited at least five times.  He went there courting Chinese investments in his city, saying at one point he hoped to make Chicago

Argonne, Purdue consider tech to keep more BP refinery pol

May. 10, 2011
Chicago-area scientists are laying out new technologies that they hope will keep additional pollution from a BP refinery out of Lake Michigan.

Analyzing the rights of migrant workers who cross the U.S. southern border

May. 9, 2011
The first of this month marked "May Day". Many only know May 1st as a Soviet celebration with a procession of tanks, missiles, and soldiers. But as many Chicagoans know, the day’s historic significance has to do with labor.

Burmese migrants in Thailand end up in 'Seafood Slavery'

May. 9, 2011
Much of the fish that ends up in American grocery stores and on your dinner plate once swam in the Gulf of Thailand.

State Line Energy closing

May. 6, 2011
State Line Energy plant is a hulking, red monster of a building that sits at the very northern tip of Hammond.

‘TV Serrana’ film school trains campesino youth in Cuba

May. 6, 2011
TV Serrana is a community media project in the Seirra Maestra Mountains of Cuba. It trains people in video production so they can tell the stories of their communities and culture.

UIC union efforts under review

May. 5, 2011
The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board is reviewing a petition filed last week by teachers and staff at the University of Illinois at Chicago to unionize, starting the clock on a 120-day process that will either certify the union or mark a setback for supporters.Union supporters filed signed

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