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Each year, the tribespeople benefit from over $560,000 in carbon revenue that pays for forest scouts and funds education, healthcare and emergency food rations.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
"Asia rations, switches to coal and can experience shortages in places" while "Europe pays very high prices to avoid shortages," said an energy industry insider on condition of anonymity.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Pensioners and families living on fixed incomes are hit the hardest, forced to stretch rations, skip meals or rely on remittances from relatives abroad — if they are lucky enough to have them.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
From meagre rations, he plumped for Johnny Kenny.
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026
And yet it happened, this day, and the next, and the next, until an awed little group of spectators stood around watching the drops fall onto the daily rations of bread.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
