Food rations to Sudan to be reduced due to funding shortages, WFP says

GENEVA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Food rations will be reduced for communities facing famine in Sudan from next month due to severe ...
New Atlas

Volcanic eruptions sparked grim chain of events that brought the Black Death

Hidden inside the narrow growth rings of Pyrenees trees lies the strongest evidence yet for what set the Black Death in ...

How Volcanic Eruption May Have Triggered Europe’s Deadliest Pandemic, According to New Study

A volcanic eruption may have triggered “the largest known plague pandemic in human history,” according to a new study about ...
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Scientists reveal what triggered the Black Death plague in Europe

When the Black Death tore through Europe in 1347, it felt like the end of the world. Entire villages emptied. Bells rang without pause. In some places, more than half the people died within months.

Volcanic eruption led to the Black Death, new research suggests

New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...
New Scientist

Volcano eruption may have led to the Black Death coming to Europe

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from ...

A volcanic eruption may have catalyzed the plague's arrival in Europe, study suggests

New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...
Queen Mary University of London

The Holodomor on screen: how cinema shapes memory of Ukraine’s famine

The famine of 1932-33, known as the Holodomor, claimed the lives of millions of people in Ukraine. It was not due to climactic failure, but caused by the confiscation of grain, punitively targeted by ...
The Conversation

The Holodomor on screen: how cinema shapes memory of Ukraine’s famine

Jeremy Hicks receives funding from the Philip Leverhulme Trust, The British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). He is a member of the Labour Party (UK). The famine of 1932-33, ...