Map of the Day: Where Tuberculosis KillsThe World Health Organization today released new global data on Tuberculosis. The biggest takeaway: TB has now ranks along side...
Parts of the Persian Gulf Will Be Uninhabitable By 2100It will be too hot for humans to even sweat. “By 2100, parts of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi...
Ethiopia Experiencing “Worst Drought in 30 Years”The latest bulletin released by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, contains this very alarming sentence:...
Getting Cancer on the Global Health AgendaEd note. This is a guest post from Dr. Dr. Anees B. Chagpar, Associate Professor of Surgery at Yale University, the...
Af-Pak EarthquakeThe aid effort will in earnest today as the international community spent much of the day yesterday getting mobilized. The...
Episode 85: Bill McKibbenBill McKibben started out as a journalist. In 1989 he wrote The End of Nature, which was first book for...
Elections! Elections! Elections!Several countries hosted elections over the weekend, many of them quite important! Here are some of the highlights: -Haitians began...
Happy 70th, UN!October 24, 1945 is the day that the United Nations officially came to being. On that day the UN charter...
Poll: UN Support at All Time High Among US VotersFor the past six years, a bi-partisan polling team has regularly surveyed American voters about their impressions of the United...
