Somalia Drought is Killing Thousands but the World Remains Indifferent
By Emily Thompson A new report this month by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) says an estimated 43,000 excess deaths occurred…
By Emily Thompson A new report this month by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) says an estimated 43,000 excess deaths occurred…
By Emily Thompson Kenya is currently experiencing a major drought; and with a massive humanitarian catastrophe looming, as well as hundreds of elephants, wildebeests and…
By Michael Snyder I am trying to sound the alarm about this as loudly as I can. The global food crisis just continues to intensify,…
By Rachel Premack You probably do not spend much time thinking about barges. This is something that you ought to change. The barge industry is…
By Michael Snyder Crops are failing all over the globe this summer, but most people don’t even know that this is happening because the big…
By Tyler Durden US cotton prices continued to surge above the boom days of 2010-11 after a massive crop estimate cut by the USDA, shocking Wall…
By Tyler Durden The Rhine River’s low water levels threaten Germany’s largest industrial players that rely on the 800-mile (1,288-kilometer) waterway from Switzerland to the…
By Michael Snyder Did you know that Kansas is known as “the Wheat State”? In 2021, it produced nearly one-fourth of all wheat that was…
By Tyler Durden Amid scorching temperatures which have hovered above 100 degrees all week, one Texas city has had its water supply shut off for…
By Michael Snyder Are you ready for more bad news about our food supply? In recent weeks, I have extensively covered a confluence of factors…
By Michael Snyder At a time when food prices are already rising aggressively, agricultural production in the United States is being absolutely devastated by a…
By Michael Snyder Over the past couple of years we have become accustomed to expecting the unexpected, but soon we many have to start anticipating…
By Tyler Durden It has been an arid spring in California, and that’s causing alarm with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. executives who have said…
By Michael Snyder In my entire lifetime, this is the worst that drought conditions have ever been in the western half of the country. During…