Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show

Quinoa has become an incredibly popular food in recent years, with prices for the whole grain tripling in the last fiv... Read more

Wired correspondent James Bamford describes the $2 billion Utah Data Center that is being constructed for the National S... Read more

Journalist Richard Martin discusses thorium as a potential nuclear fuel and looks at the efforts to promote it as a new ... Read more

Thailand is one of the largest exporters of seafood to the United States. On today’s Underreported segment, Global Post... Read more

University of Pennsylvania law professor David Skeel explains the recent judicial expansion of the Martin Act of 1921, w... Read more

On today’s Underreported, directors Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher talk about the people who serve as human test sub... Read more

In late March and early April, a boat filled with dozens of African migrants drifted in the Mediterranean for 16 days wi... Read more

On today’s Underreported segment, The Nation’s Kathryn Joyce explains how evangelical Christians are trying to increase... Read more

On this week’s Underreported, Human Rights Watch researcher Nisha Varia describes abuses of migrant domestic workers i... Read more

On this week’s Underreported, Dan Coughlin, reporter for The Nation magazine, Kim Ives, editor for Haiti Liberté, discus... Read more

A number of scientists believe that the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima reactors in Japan is much worse than what gove... Read more

Since last summer, there has been a sometimes violent standoff between students at the University of Puerto Rico and th... Read more

Climate change is having dramatic effects on the world’s oceans as ice sheets collapse and the sea becomes more acidic. ... Read more

Helena Bottemiller, a reporter for The Food & Environment Reporting Network, looks at the controversial animal feed ... Read more

On this week’s Underreported, Foreign Policy’s Joshua Keating discusses “The Stories You Missed in 2011,” including Ind... Read more

In China, Asiatic black bears are kept in cages for their bile, which is valued in Asian medicine. Jill Robinson, the fo... Read more

In November, the Democratic Republic of Congo held presidential elections, even as the security situation there deterior... Read more

The crisis at the Fukushima reactor in Japan has been out of the headlines, but that doesn’t mean the crisis has been so... Read more

Full body X-ray scanners are now commonplace in airports across America. ProPublica reporter Michael Grabell tells us ab... Read more

Recently Kenyan forces invaded Somalia in a bid to fight the militant group Al-Shaabab. The United States has also bee... Read more