This summer, the Trump administration ended its “zero tolerance” policy that separated children from their asylum-seeking parents at the southern border. This policy and the plight of hundred...
Bitcoin is a form of electronic cash, or cryptocurrency, that was introduced in 2009. The first of its kind, it sparked a cryptocurrency revolution. More than a thousand new cryptocurrencies have...
https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2018/08/17/is-cryptocurrency-really-the-future-of-money/
No matter what your position on gun rights and gun control, most people can at least agree that the United States has a pretty serious gun violence problem. As our latest Above the Noise video po...
https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2018/06/01/americas-never-ending-gun-fight/
We humans gravitate to conspiracy theories like moths to a flame. As the latest Above the Noise video points out, conspiracy theories — the belief that some secretive organization is responsibl...
The Hayward Fault is restless. On Monday evening (May 14), there was a 3.5 magnitude earthquake along the fault centered just east of Oakland. It comes just over four months after a 4.4 magnitude...
Imagine if one day you turned on your faucet and nothing coming came out. That prospect was almost a reality for the 4 million people in Cape Town, South Africa. Following years of crippling drou...
The first-ever Youth Takeover of KQED News is in full swing. From students’ personal experiences with post traumatic stress to the future of farming (hint: it involves lots of fish poop), Bay A...
https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2018/04/25/kqeds-youth-takeover/
How the first Earth Day, 47 years ago, led to some of America's most sweeping environmental reforms. The post When Rivers Caught Fire: A Brief History of Earth Day (with Lesson Plan) appeared ...
https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2018/04/20/when-rivers-caught-fire-a-brief-history-of-earth-day/
It charges in your computer, it’s small enough to fit snugly in your pocket, and it can even be used without anyone knowing about it. This is how teenagers smoke nowadays. Vaping — inhaling a...
https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2018/04/18/the-underage-vaping-explosion/
“In this world,” wrote Benjamin Franklin, “nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.” With the April 17 federal income tax filing deadline creeping up, millions of America...
One of the world’s most effective conservation laws is under serious threat. The Endangered Species Act (ESA), backed by none other than President Richard Nixon in 1973 and passed nearly unanim...
https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2018/04/04/is-the-endangered-species-act-at-risk-of-extinction/
Of the original 68 men’s teams that entered the NCAA’s March Madness basketball tournament, only four remain. The Final Four games take place Saturday in San Antonio, with Michigan (#3) vs....
https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2018/03/29/six-figures-on-the-mad-money-of-march-madness/
How the Non-Proliferation Treaty helped prevent nuclear war and where we go from here. The post How to Stop a Nuclear War: The Non-Proliferation Treaty, Explained appeared first on The Lowdown...
You know you’ve struck a nerve when you draw protesters on both sides of an international border. That was the case last Tuesday (March 12), when President Trump inspected a collection of borde...
https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2018/03/16/map-what-does-the-u-s-mexico-border-actually-look-like/