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... there's no virtue in signing a pledge to curtail food production, and potentially starve millions, to combat a hypothetical climate catastrophe.

Food supplies around the world face collapse if the use of nitrogen fertiliser is severely restricted under Net Zero requirements

Social and political instability is a much more likely culprit, especially since Somalia’s current drought is not unprecedented, and neighboring countries also under drought conditions are have not experienced similar crop...

Several African leaders at last month’s UN general assembly left dismayed after their calls for action on the climate crisis were overshadowed by the Ukraine war...

Quite simply there is not enough natural nitrogen available to maintain current global food production.

One of world’s biggest fertiliser producers calls for action as high gas prices force it to slash production

According to the Australian Government ABC, Chinese migrants who survived a brutal famine caused by Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward can teach us how to survive in the coming age of sustainability.

Catastrophic shock to US agriculture would deplete reserves, including those of other countries Frontiers The American Dust Bowl of the 1930s – captured by the novels of John Steinbeck – was an environmental and...

New research shows that the impending climate disaster puts the world in danger of growing too much corn and soy. People won’t know what starving is! H/t to CO2Science Qiao et al discovered that when temperatures are...

Officials have declared the first official famine in six years - in South Sudan. And it is entirely manmade. The United Nations and South Sudanese government said 100,000 people are already suffering, and one million more...

No matter how humans may struggle to separate ourselves from the natural world, we are inevitably subject to its rule. No empire is too grand to be immunized from the effects of a powerful nature. The Byzantine Empire, also...

The UN's World Food Programme has warned that Yemen is on the brink of famine as a result of the ongoing fighting in the country. “Right now, the conflict-driven convergence between the lack of staple food, access to clean...

As California struggles to contain ferocious wildfires and the Pacific Northwest anxiously waits for the Cascadia fault to reawaken, right across the ocean, Russians are dealing with a natural disaster of biblical proportions:...

As California struggles to contain ferocious wildfires and the Pacific Northwest anxiously waits for the Cascadia fault to reawaken, right across the ocean, Russians are dealing with a natural disaster of biblical proportions:...

A new U.K study warns that humanity could face a famine of biblical proportions by 2050 due to a plague of pests brought on by climate change. Research from the University of Exeter published in the journal Global Ecology...