The Coming Storm: Extreme Weather and Our Terrifying Future By Bob Reiss Hyperion, 323 pages, $24.95 In the grey, ashen days following the WTC bombing, two dispiriting things came across my desk.

Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox By Jonathan B. Tucker Atlantic Monthly Press, 291 pages, $41.50 For those accustomed to The Hot Zone tradition of chronicling a deadly disease ...

We're seeing the effects right here in York County: The spring snow melt is coming earlier each spring, bringing increased flood risk with it. Massive wildfires in the western states lead to ...

As Mr Sokor's bemused London recipient points out, two worlds were colliding. The age-old scourge of famine in the Horn of Africa had found a 21st-century response; and a familiar flow of ...

the vast heartland of China was once more beset by its most ancient of enemies—flood and famine. From Kwangtung alone, refugees streamed into the refugee-packed British Crown Colony of Hong Kong ...

Plague and famine followed the storms ... from the direction the knocked-over trees are pointing in, to have been a flood resulting from the melting and sudden rupturing of Myrdalsjokull, the ...

witnessing the horror of the Famine. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) During 1847, emigration became a panicked flood, including elements from all ...

Devastating famine in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s ... one unfortunate reason why the global Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS) relies on government and nonprofit funding, according to ...