famine

“It’s like you have a famine, and you’ve only got food for 15% of the people,” Culhane said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Mamdani continued: “These are people who fled earthquakes, famine, war and political violence,” he said in a statement.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

An estimated three million people died in eastern India in the Bengal famine, but the nature of the wartime British prime minister's role in it has long been subject to academic dispute.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

"We are seeing certain countries holding the process hostage as vulnerable people suffer heat stress, and king tides and storms, drought and famine," he said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

Cora pictured her, scrappy and determined, a survivor of famine and the hard relocation.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

It asserted that widespread famines and mass starvation would doom huge swaths of mankind because the world’s population was growing too rapidly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

In extreme conditions such as droughts, famines or freezing temperatures, animals activate resilience programs like hibernation instead of investing energy in reproduction.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 23, 2026

Only four previous famines have been classified by the IPC since it was established in 2004, the most recent in Sudan in 2024.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025

With powerful statistical models, the researchers analyzed 30,000 years of archaeological records, tracing the impact of wars, famines and climate change.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2024

If you wore special glasses you could see them spinning through the sky among the bats and homing birds—blondes, wars, famines, football, food shows, coups d’ etat, hairstyles stiff with hair spray.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy