Here is a look at famine, a severe and prolonged hunger in a significant portion of a region or country’s population that results in malnutrition and death by starvation and disease. To assess a ...

Famine can stem from natural causes such as droughts, floods, earthquakes and plant disease ... 1943 – Famine in China (Henan), results in 3 to 5 million deaths. 1943 – In India (Bengal ...

The weather in some of the world’s most densely populated cities is swinging from droughts to floods and back again as rising temperatures play havoc with the global water cycle, a study commissioned ...

China said Saturday it would slap tariffs on Canadian products including rapeseed oil and pork, after a Beijing probe into ...

[Photo by Wang Zhuangfei/chinadaily.com.cn] China has made remarkable strides in mitigating flooding losses as it strives to strengthen its flood control capabilities in response to increasingly ...

The Australian designer behind a Hollywood celebrity’s jaw-dropping Oscars after-party look has revealed the painstaking ...

It became clear to me that our reliance on grey infrastructure – dams, levees and concrete flood channels – had failed to protect us. We needed to move from controlling water with brute force to ...