This hour, we’ll talk about what it’s like to visit Cuba today – and about if the country is ready for the influx of tourists – with Cynthia Gorney. Her story “Here Comes a Wave of Change for Cuba” appears in the November issue of National Geographic magazine.
What are the potential risks and rewards from new oil extraction methods like fracking?
What has changed in Cuba since Fidel Castro ostensibly stepped away from power and are the changes happening fast enough for the Cuban people?
Why were more than 25,000 elephants slaughtered last year? We’ll find out this hour.
What has become of the tribal customs, language, and beliefs of the Oglala Lakota people of the pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota?
What does human society lose when a language disappears forever?
What really happened in the North Atlantic in the early morning of April 15, 1912?
Tsunamis are nothing new, but how is the ever-increasing human population along coastlines amplifying the threat from these killer waves?
Will the planet’s estimated 4,000 remaining wild tigers survive ongoing habitat loss and poaching?
What makes teenagers so moody, impulsive and maddening to adults and especially their parents?
