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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...

Islamist militancy in Nigeria is being strengthened by western and regional fossil fuel interestsThe kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian school girls, and the massacre of as many as 300 civilians in the town of Gamboru Ngala,...

For years, scientists and social activists have warned that income inequality, resource depletion, and unchecked population growth could lead to the collapse of civilization...

For children who have been forced from their homes due to violent conflict or dire environmental conditions, the idea of a safe place for play and relaxation can seem a distant memory...

Sports stars like Mo Farah at No 10 will not change a simple fact: people are starving because of the west's thirst for biofuelsI don't blame Mo Farah, Pele and Haile Gebrselassie, who lined up, all hugs and smiles, outside...

Global Hunger Index says US government support for corn ethanol was a factor in this year's food price spikesAmerica must stop promoting the production of biofuels if there is to be any real progress in addressing spiking...

Campaigners say plants being grown in US may worsen global food crisis, while farmers express cross-contamination fearsUS farmers are growing the first corn plants genetically modified for the specific purpose of putting...

(As you may guess, this was written a few days ago, but it is still a topic very much on our minds.-Gail)