This tragic documentary explores the rising despair in rural India where crop failures, sinking global cotton prices and spiraling debt are pushing farmers to the edge.

What is your subway fare going to fund? Will your life be made better by long-range transportation plans? See the MTA CEO Elliot Sander’s presentation from February 2008.

A recent study conducted by the Cleveland Clinic indicated that heart surgery patients who receive transfusions of blood more than two weeks old were more likely to die or suffer serious complications than patients who receive fresher blood.

The P.O.V. blog highlights Abel Raises Cain, on the life story of master media manipulator Alan Abel and his long-running pranks in the press and on television.

The Energy Department expects gas prices to peak near $3.50 a gallon later in the spring. Many analysts think prices could rise as high as $3.75 or $4.

This week, Merck and Schering-Plough, the makers of popular cholesterol drugs Vytorin and Zetia faced a new setback. The results of a new clinical trial indicated that these drugs, whose combined sales topped $5 billion in 2007, are ineffective in accomplishing their main goal: reducing the growth of plaque in the arteries. The New York [...]

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said for the first time Wednesday that “a recession is possible,” but he remained optimistic that the economy will bounce back by the second half of this year.

From deep in the archives, the Philip Glass Ensemble performs in 1979. Also, the composer speaks to how he came to write “trance” music.

April 2nd is the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision that the federal government must regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Andrew C. Revkin of the New York Times “Dot Earth” blog recently highlighted a talk by MIT chemist Daniel G. Nocera at the Aspen Environment Forum on March 26.
In order to tackle our future energy needs, Dr. Nocera says, “All scientists ultimately believe solar has to be the answer.” His research focuses on methods [...]