What responsibilities do governments, researchers, humanitarian organizations, and corporations have for the conditions that repeatedly turn hazards into human catastrophes?

Most climate aid arrives after the disaster. A handful of countries are proving it doesn’t have to.

The glaciers of the Himalayas aren’t safe from climate change. The sudden collapse of a glacier looks to have triggered disaster in Nepal.

Early evidence suggests this was not an ordinary rain-driven flash flood. So what caused it?

Recovery time between climate disasters makes a huge difference to the consequences affecting local people.

China’s new ethnic unity law reaches across borders. The danger is not that it does so. It is what it criminalizes, whom it targets, and how it enforces.

Burial grounds are filling up but are new methods any more green than traditional options?

A new study provides a crucial baseline: the first global map of where these fungal networks are and how much of them exists.

China’s national government policies on energy and economic development are changing pastoral life on the Tibetan Plateau.

Chang, a refreshing, low-strength brew, and arak, its stronger relative, have long been part of Tibetan rituals.