4 Israeli soldiers killed in Hezbollah drone attack that leaves dozens injured
The Lebanese militant group targeted an Israeli army base near the central city of Binyamina, in one of the most serious mass casualty attacks the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group has caused in Israel.
Deep inside a Norwegian fjord, a dream of farming salmon sustainably
If you eat salmon, there’s a good chance that it comes from a salmon farm in Norway. The country has been farming salmon for over 50 years.
The industry is touted as a key producer of sustainable, low carbon footprint protein. But there are still negative environmental impacts. Each year, an average of 200,000 farmed salmon escape from their open net pens and breed with wild salmon.
Interbreeding with these escaped salmon passes on significant genetic changes to wild salmon, changes that make them less likely to survive in the wild.
NPR’s Rob Schmitz traveled the country’s west coast, visiting fishing villages and fish farms to see how the growth of salmon farming is affecting the wild population.
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How one Afro-Colombian community honors their ancestry
In the town of Juntas, in the city of Buenaventura, Colombia, the community gathers for Holy Week every year to celebrate the Manacillos festival, an ancestral ritual originating in the upper part of the Yurumangui River.
Deep inside a Norwegian fjord, a dream of farming salmon sustainably
In Norway, one man’s solution to the threat posed by farmed salmon and the impact on the fjords they swim in.
As Israel strikes Hezbollah targets, Lebanese civilians are being displaced
NPR’s Rob Schmitz speaks with Sarah Al-Charif, Lebanon director of the Ruwwad Al-Tanmeya organization, about the displacement that people there are experiencing as a result of Israeli strikes.
National Geographic team may have discovered the foot of a famed Mount Everest climber
A National Geographic team found the boot and foot of whom it suspects to be Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, a 22-year-old climber who went missing on Mount Everest a century ago.
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors group
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nihon Hidankyo. Its members are survivors of the August 1945 U.S. nuclear bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A Mother and Newborn from Gaza Reunited After Months Apart
Raneem Hijazi was eight months pregnant when an Israeli airstrike on her apartment in Gaza buried her in rubble, killing eight family members including her young son. Hijazi survived and gave birth that day to a healthy baby girl. But then she was sepa…
Her last memory is by the window with her baby in Gaza. Then, Israeli airstrikes hit
Israel’s military dropped tens of thousands of bombs on Gaza in a year. This is a look at one airstrike, the lives it upended and the rights group’s investigation saying it’s a possible war crime.
A Japanese organization of atomic bombing survivors wins the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize
The Japanese grassroots group Nihon Hidankyo, an organization of World War II atomic bombing survivors, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to create a world free of nuclear weapons.
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