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h/t Breitbart; In the face of last month's UN warning that 49 million people in 43 countries face severe risk of starvation, the New Zealand Government has chosen now to introduce a new climate change food tax.

Heavy rains in India and Nepal have killed 15 people and displaced 2.3 million in just the past few days. Fortunately for approximately 600 foreigners who were visiting Sauraha, no additional lives were lost when the nearby...

If countless scientific studies can't convince climate change deniers of the imminent threat to the world, perhaps a stark glance into our future food supply might do the trick...

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...

A recent study by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that the 1.3 billion tons of food discarded around the world account for more greenhouse gas emissions than those emitted by any country except for...

Image ©dbrekke As if worrying about rising sea levels isn’t enough, the evils of climate change are also affecting our food supply. A mix of increased temperatures, changes in rain, and bacterial and fungi outbreaks...

Photo via Shutterstock Could the world’s supply of fertile soil really run out? That’s the question posed by TIME Magazine in a recent Q & A with University of Sydney professor John Crawford, and as far-fetched...

We all know that the US has been experiencing some very hot and dry weather conditions, with the country’s most productive agricultural states suffering as a result...

Meat in a Shop Window Photo from Shutterstock It is estimated that the world’s population will reach 9.3 billion people by 2050, which raises significant questions as to how exactly we are going to feed such a massive...