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Doctors say 'fossil fuel addiction' kills, starves millions

Extreme weather from climate change triggered hunger in nearly 100 million people and increased heat deaths by 68% in vulnerable populations worldwide as the world’s “fossil fuel addiction” degrades public health each year, doctors reported in a new study.
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Prolonged drought brings famine, death and fear to Somalia

A man in a donkey cart comes wheeling through the dust, carrying two small, silent boys. The sky is overcast. It could rain. It won’t. It hasn’t for a very long time. Mohamed Ahmed Diriye is 60 years old, and he’s completing the grimmest journey of his life.

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'Knocking on famine's door': UN food chief wants action now

The U.N. food chief warned Thursday that the world is facing “a perfect storm on top of a perfect storm” and urged donors, particularly Gulf nations and billionaires, to give a few days of profits to tackle a crisis with the fertilizer supply right now and prevent widespread food shortages next year.

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Halt use of biofuels to ease food crisis, says green group

Governments should put a moratorium on the use of biofuels and lift bans on genetic modification of crops, a green campaigning group has urged, in the face of a growing global food crisis that threatens to engulf developing nations.

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Experts say Ukraine war shows we need a new way to feed the world
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Experts say Ukraine war shows we need a new way to feed the world

World leaders haven’t learned their lesson from past food crises, experts warn.
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Seta Tutundjian: The global hunger crisis is here

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fragility and dysfunctionality of the world’s food systems; now, the war in Ukraine is compounding these challenges.

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Jennifer Clapp: Food price spikes are about much more than Ukraine
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Jennifer Clapp: Food price spikes are about much more than Ukraine

The global food system is a house of cards. Here’s how to fix it.
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Opinion: Trump allies aim to take U.S. energy policy back in time

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Puerto Rico’s climate scientists lose federal support amid new Trump policies

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Paris tests public support for green streets by voting on car-free zones

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An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Climate scientist Michael Mann speaks at a podium with a porjection of the famous hockey Stick climate graph.

A climate scientist’s legal win just got flipped on its head

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Court ruling against Greenpeace sends warning to protest groups nationwide

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EPA dismantles decades of work on environmental justice