Instead of seeking greenhouse gas reductions, we need to foster resilience: the ability to withstand changes and bounce back from them.

Pakistan's historic flooding has undone months of intense counterinsurgency efforts and allowed militant Islamist groups to burnish their image.

Pakistan's floods have worsened well beyond the capacity of the government to react and the Taliban and Islamist extremists are aiming to capitalize on the publicity that the relief effort is receiving.

While flooding is a fact of life, studies show that humans are poor at evaluating the risk of flooding and insuring themselves against potential losses.

2012 may well be the year that India's economy returns to a familiar place—as an Asian laggard overshadowed by its East Asian peers and largely ignored by the rest of the world.

Insurance companies settling claims after Hurricane Katrina faced unfair criticism for refusing to pay for damage not covered in insurance policies.

We have seen what nearly two decades of timid, supine humanitarian aid has brought the North Korean people: food insecurity without end. Isn't it time to fashion an aid program as if the North Korean people really mattered?

Last week a major international health donor had to admit it had lost over two million dollars of medicines and $34 million in cash to corruption. But the situation is worse than publicly acknowledged and is set to deteriorate further.