400 entrepreneurs gathered in Seattle’s largest film production studio to share why they work long hours, for low pay, facing great uncertainty.

We travel to Ciudad Juarez to meet the journalists who cover politics and crime for the Diario de Juarez. All of them are women and they have covered more crimes […]

Petroleum-rich Qatar is spearheading projects to tackle the problems facing desert communities worldwide; from energy to fresh water and food production. But does their expensive, high-tech solution make sense

We go inside a recycling plant and a bottle factory to see the technology that turns used glass into new bottles.

In the US more and more children are defining themselves as transgender, throwing up a number of complex questions. Following first-grader Coy Mathis, this report investigates the world of transgender […]

A journey through New York City reveals what it means to be truly food insecure in the land of plenty.

Coffee drinkers love East Timor’s green beans but farming remains a life and death struggle in Asia’s poorest nation.

From the icy wastelands of North Dakota, an energy revolution is transforming global politics. Shale gas has made the US gas-independent, but at what cost to the environment, Europe and […]

Using oxygen-thin air at altitude to simulate the effects of hypoxia suffered by intensive care patients, doctors examine volunteers, including identical twins Jenn Price and Jan Taylor, pictured to try […]

The film heads to Denver–ground zero for cannabis legalization, and home to a booming tech sector in what could be called the Silicon Valley of weed–to inhale the newest high-tech […]

Is war looming as Japan strengthens its military power and tensions escalate over disputed East China Sea islands?

Rio de Janeiro’s sprawling favelas (slums) have been under the control of heavily armed drug gangs. Now before 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, the government wants to take them […]

Hong Kong’s maids say they’re treated like second class citizens by controversially being denied permanent residency.