New Orleans could be wiped out tomorrow if another storm hit it, according to former Times-Picayune metro editor Jed Horne.

Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar President Aitzaz Ahsan discussed what is needed to fix the country’s dire judicial situation at a seminar hosted by the Project on Managing the Atom and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

For many living in rural sub-Saharan Africa, lack of electricity means nobody can work after sunset. This limits productivity in many areas, including students' ability to study in the evening. Kerosene lamps are an option, but they are expensive and dangerous and are used only in emergencies. Many people are left in the dark.

The 2007 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership project winner is working to shed some light on this problem with a local and green solution: the jatropha nut.

"Climate change is real, humans are the largest cause of it, it's already doing harm, it's accelerating, and we need to do something serious about it, starting now," John Holdren told United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in February. "If the build-up of greenhouse gases pushes the global average surface temperature past 2-2.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level, the danger of intolerable and unmanageable impacts of climate change on human wellbeing becomes very high."

John Deutch, Institute Professor at MIT and Belfer Center Board of Directors and International Council member, testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in late March on the recent MIT report "The Future of Coal-Options for a Carbon Constrained World," co-authored with MIT's Ernest Moniz. The report examines how the world can continue to use coal in a way that mitigates instead of worsens the global warming crisis.