Every day, more than 140 million people in southern Asia drink groundwater contaminated with arsenic. Thousands of people in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Myanmar and Vietnam die of cancer each year from chronic exposure to arsenic, according to the World Health Organization. Some health experts call it the biggest mass poisoning in history.

Tagged: Asia, Environmental Research, Environment & Sustainability, Earth Sciences

American history professor, Gordon Chang, was drawn into the world of art when another professor stopped by to ask about his late father, Chinese artist Chang Shu-chi. That meeting and the events it triggered have resulted in Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970, published this fall.

Tagged: Asia, history, Arts & Creativity, International Issues, Humanities & Sciences

Many of the world's poorest regions could face severe crop losses in the next two decades because of climate change, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford Program on Food Security and the Environment (FSE). Their findings were published in the Feb. 1 issue of the journal Science.

Tagged: Africa, Asia, climate change, farming, poverty, Environment & Sustainability, International Issues