by Savannah Jenkins | 2 Apr 2020 | Discovery, Eyewitness, Personal Reflections, Podcasts
COVID-19 has forced billions of people into lockdown. Two survivors of earlier crises tell how solidarity and patience are antidotes to fear. Patients receive blood transfusions in Karachi, Pakistan, 1 April 2020. A lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic has created...
by News Decoder | 19 Mar 2020 | Discovery, Eyewitness, Health and Wellness
COVID-19 is forcing us to adapt to rapidly evolving circumstances. Two News-Decoder correspondents recount their challenges. Two of our correspondents have sent in accounts of how they are coping with the new coronavirus. One writer is in a hospital in Sydney,...
by News Decoder | 18 Mar 2020 | Discovery, Eyewitness, Health and Wellness
As the coronavirus crisis deepens, we confront a most basic question: Will we survive this? We tapped our correspondents for their thoughts. An emergency hospital during the Spanish flu epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, circa 1918 (Wikimedia Commons/National Museum of...
by Amari Leigh | 26 Sep 2019 | Discovery, Youth Voices
Are the frustrations and joys of New York’s subway unique to my home city? A summer criss-crossing Paris in its metro answered my question. As a New Yorker, I am familiar with the dirt and delays that can define a commuter’s experience in a city where 5.4...
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by Sarah Edmonds | 12 Sep 2019 | Climate change, Discovery, Environment, Eyewitness, Personal Reflections
(French countryside viewed from a TGV fast train. Video and photos by Sarah Edmonds) By Sarah Edmonds I am suffering an acute case of flight-shame. Yes, that’s a thing. The Swedes, with their skill for coining simple terms for complex and timely phenomena, have made...
