The U.N. World Food Program said on Friday it will begin reducing food rations next month for Sudanese communities facing ...

The Black Death has long been treated as a bolt from the blue, a medieval catastrophe that seemed to erupt out of nowhere and then vanish just as mysteriously. Now a new generation of climate ...

Xi Jinping himself – ideologically and politically – was committed to a form of totalitarian rule. And he was skillful enough ...

To meet a rising interest in the Chinese Communist Party, a new DSA monthly seminar about “modern China and lessons for US ...

Following the Dragon' at Jamestown Settlement shows how 17th-century colonizers weren't only fighting disease and famine. The ...

In the Middle Ages, the Black Death burst onto the scene, with the first historically documented outbreak occurring in 1346 ...

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

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

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

That Chinese people will eat anything is a foreign misconception. Instead, foreigners could learn a thing or two from the way ...

In a world so rich, a famine in Sudan is an indictment, not an inevitability. But is the world ready to see forced hunger as intolerable? That is the question today.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asks Trump to intervene in Sudan's devastating war that has killed 400,000 people and ...