Columnists: Seeds of Disaster
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Internet Explorer's problems can be traced to Microsoft's shortsightedness during the browser wars of the 1990s. Is the company sowing tomorrow's security woes today?
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By Alex BreitlerFrom his offices in Fresno, Steve Johnson explained how cloud seeders spent one of the driest Januaries on record: &quot;We'd look at the forecast maps and pray,&quot; he said.
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By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor. The hurricane some have called &quot;Ivan the Terrible&quot; could have been a lot more terrible.
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Ever wondered what happened to last year's biotech disaster stories?
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By Katy Guest  In Nicaragua this summer, they had much the same problem with the bean harvest as we did in Britain. As the sun scorched the fields and prayed-for rain failed to fall, tender legume crops failed. In Britain, we feared that Bird's Eye might have to put up its prices.
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Comment is free: Gary Younge:  The Bush years have been so crushing that progressives have set their expectations low.
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Breaking news in recent years has been swamped with stories of extreme weather -- flash floods in East Asia, prolonged drought in Africa, destructive hurricanes like Hurricane Katrina, heavy monsoon rainfall in South Asia, and an historic heat wave in Europe.
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Investing: Cruising to Disaster
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Gideon Mendel's pictures of flooding in east and west reveal striking contrasts and unexpected resonances
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This summer&#39;s onslaught repeats a long-term cycle, bringing back warmer waters and more storms. By Peter N. Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Authorities say Hurricanes Charley and Frances devastated the state&#39;s agricultural industry. Hurricane Charley caused up to one (b) billion dollars&#39; damage to the state&#39;s more than 6 (b) billion dollars worth of crops.
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Extreme weather, drought and spreading disease are on the horizon if something isn't done to rein in the human impact on the environment, a new study says. By the Associated Press.
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By Andrew Gumbel  America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still.
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A Nepalese Sherpa fears his mountain valley will be flooded by melting glacier runoff high in the Himalayas. A Fiji islander frets about rising sea levels, while villagers cope with the destruction of mangrove swamps in India.
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A thin winter green  carpets Australia&#39;s southeast hills and plains, camouflaging  the onset of a drought catastrophe in the nation&#39;s food bowl.
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HAFUN, Somalia -- In this remote, northeastern corner of Somalia, villagers have long believed the world will end when the sea runs dry and the ground shakes. When the tsunami struck Dec. 26, many thought that day had come.
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Readers report their experiences of the Indian Ocean tsunami that has devastated parts of Asia.