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The "Bridge of No Return" that crosses the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

Avoiding a Pearl Harbor in Korea

… related to the abject poverty of its people — demands for food, fuel and power-generating nuclear reactor technology. … that it provides the bulk of North Korea’s energy and food supplies, and it is threatening to restrict critical food and fuel aid further if North Korea does not negotiate. …

Sudan in Crisis

… cleansing of non-Arab Darfuris. Darfur refugees carrying food home from a World Food Program center in 2007. The United Nations has … the end of the sanctions. A 2017 map of South Sudan’s food insecurity situation. These signs included cooperation …

Another Silent Spring

… that threatened agricultural production—a production of food deemed necessary to feed a burgeoning human population … and to feed their babies they demanded more and more food and fiber. Then they waged a war on insects and fungi … only selector is a single species looking for a more secure food supply , usually because of its own population stress. …
Afar community animal health worker describing the appearance and characteristics of rinderpest in cattle (photo credit: ILRI/Jeff Mariner).

The Second Disease Eradication: Rinderpest

… and kill humans, it did kill their critical sources of food, labor, and security. In the eighteenth century, for … help them do it, first, by protecting the critical Allied food supply chain that originated in the fields and farms of … Relief workers followed in the wake of Allied armies with food, medicine, and blankets, but very quickly also seeds, …

The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow?

… almonds, walnuts, and pistachios. As California dries up, food prices might well rise across the nation. The question … of long dry periods, with their disruptive effects on food production and the plants and animals that rely on … forcing them to build fortified dwellings with hidden food storage areas. The Sinagua also disappeared about the …
Mary Mallon in a hospital bed in 1907.

Who Was Typhoid Mary?

… or when a person with typhoid germs on their hands handled food or milk and served it to others, the  disease spread . … Instead, they decided to focus on people who worked in food handling occupations—those at highest risk of …
Protestors against the U.S. Trump administration voice their commitment to the world's dispossessed.

The Politics of Refugee Aid in America’s “Short Century”

Review of Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed , by Stephen R. Porter Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
… far reaching humanitarian projects (including global food relief and health campaigns in addition to refugee … Joint Distribution Committee sent millions of tons of food and material aid to the victims of war in Europe. A … soft power, especially in matters of global health and food security. Overall, however, Porter offers a concise and …
a Galapagos sea turtle swimming in the ocean

What’s “Natural” on the Galapagos Islands?

The youngest, westernmost islands are still volcanically active and are thought to be no more than 700,000 thousand years old.
… life, but relied on indigenous birds and tortoises for food. Over the course of the nineteenth century, as many as … island of Floreana and that “the staple article of animal food is supplied by the tortoises. Their numbers have of … pirates brought goats to the islands to augment the local food sources and they have proven to be better colonizers …

The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State

… 2017. The human costs of the crisis have been dire, with  food and medicine shortages ,  soaring infant mortality , … services such as health care, education, and subsidized food to the poor. At the peak of the oil boom from 2006 to … strict governmental restrictions on prices for a range of foods and goods. Price controls on key products have been a …
NASA marks Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.

“Give Earth a Chance”: Earth Day and the Politics of Modern Environmentalism

… stronger storms , extreme heatwaves, widespread drought , food insecurity , large scale migration , and social, … Carson described the intricate web of relationships—the food chains linking plants, bugs, birds, fish, animals, and … Yosemite, dumped garbage in the Hudson, sprayed DDT in our food, and left our cities in decay. Its carrier is man.” The …
Refugee tents in Piraeus port.

A Postcard from a Piraeus Refugee Camp

… organizations and individuals have stepped in to provide food, clothing, and shelter to these vulnerable people. This … with a refugee seeking help proved immensely valuable. Food distribution outside Stone House. The refugees were …
A crowd of protesters at night in Sudan

Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday

… rewrote the rules to hold on to power late last year and food prices soared, a popular front of reformists began a … the capital. Basically, they started in response to rising food prices as well as inflation, repression and all sorts …
These false killer whales were part of an MSE in Flinders Bay, Australia, July of 1986.

Washed Ashore: Marine Mammals from Medieval Times to Today

… in their comfort, and many monasteries and paupers had food aid.     The medieval actors who encountered and … nature of whose death we do not know, are to be taken for food in good faith, unless they are decomposed.” The Human … of death. Instead of being killed and processed (either for food or for fat), whales and dolphins are helped back out to …
West Berliners stand amid the rubble of WWII and watch U.S. Air Force transport planes land at Templehof Airport during the Berlin Airlift in 1948.

The Berlin Airlift

… crackdowns, very few chose to accept Soviet offers for food aid.  The Soviets offered ration cards for Soviet foodstuffs and fuel, yet in the first two weeks of the …
Port of Buenos Aires

Cholera and Argentina: Insights for COVID-19

… beliefs that diseases spread through miasmas of odd smells, foods, purported immoral behaviors, or certain environments … Koch in Germany showed cholera could not attach itself to food thus making to closure unnecessary. However, the public … in Argentina had long connected an ever-evolving list of foods with cholera. Officials believed fruit, meat, and …