Tag: Alvin Powell

  • Nation & World

    In Pakistan, controlling water is key

    Pakistan’s long-term water security requires institutional renewal and new infrastructure, including new dams, on the Indus River.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘I thought a bomb went off’

    As twilight fell over Port-au-Prince that first terrible night after Haiti’s January earthquake, Louise Ivers watched a strange cloud of dust settle over the city. Stirred by buildings collapsing as the late afternoon quake struck, the cloud was pierced only by sound, a rising chorus of screams from across the capital as the toll became…

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Report from Haiti

    Nearly a month after a massive earthquake devastated Haiti, paramedic Anthony Croese looked into the crowd outside a destroyed orphanage near Port-au-Prince and spotted an emaciated baby cradled in his father’s arms.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Expert: Lift taboo on Earth engineering

    University of Calgary Professor David Keith calls for investment in geoengineering research as part of the search for solutions to climate change.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Louise Ivers: ‘I can’t sleep at night because of the things that I see.’

    Louise Ivers gently lifted the 7-month-old by his forearms, hoping he would pull himself up as a healthy child a third his age might. But his head hung limply back,…

    9 minutes