Across the world, plants and flowers are increasingly reaching the brink of extinction. We get the chance the hold one of the rarest plants in the world, find out how invasive species are killing precious forests in New Caledonia, and check out a controversial scheme to keep back the encroaching sands of the Sahara desert.
This week we head to the French island of Corsica to investigate an almost invisible pollution choking the Mediterranean Sea. Up to 250 billion fragments of plastic are believed to be swarming just below the water's surface.
Oil giant BP said Wednesday it has finalised a $7.8 billion deal to settle more than 100,000 claims from fishermen and others affected by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The settlement must still be approved by a US judge.
Today it's all about the unlikely themes the presidential candidates are choosing to campaign on - and the ones they'd rather not talk about that are motivating voters.
FRENCH PAPERS, Fri. 06/04/12: French President Nicolas Sarkozy gets a lot of attention in the French press after he unveiled his economic manifesto on Thursday. But many papers point out that his programme isn’t all that new.
Mali has been hit by a coup in the south and rebels in the north. We take a closer look at the civilians caught in the middle. Meanwhile, Youssou N'Dour is Senegal's new culture minister. He is just one of many African artists fighting for change. Finally, we find out how a ban on plastic bags in Rwanda is good for both the environment and employment.
In the United States, the Obama administration wants to limit carbon emissions from US power plants. That proposal is seen as putting a lid on the construction of new coal-powered plants. Markus Karlsson talks to the woman behind that policy, Lisa Jackson. She is the Head of the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Two recent studies show that chemicals in a commonly-used class of pesticide are harming the long-declining population of honeybees and bumblebees, in one case disorienting the insects and causing them to fail to return to their hives.
