June 5th marks the 30th anniversary of the recognition that a new disease was killing our species. It would become our era's Great Plague, killing somewhere between 28-35 million human beings, and infecting about 75 million with HIV. That June 5, 1981 paper by Dr. Michael Gottlieb of...

Hurricane season is coming, and that could bring catastrophe to the 1.7 million Haitians now living in squalid tent cities, their homes having been destroyed in the January 12th earthquake. Top meteorologists forecast an unusually severe storm season for the Atlantic/Caribbean region featuring up to 16 named tropical storms and...

Moshiur Rahman, like so many businessmen today, is a weary fellow, striving to keep his head above the troubled economic waters of our time. But as the obviously exhausted Rahman strives to keep his several companies afloat in Dhaka, Bangladesh, he faces an emerging confluence of crises: bird flu, climate...