Climate change increases the frequency and severity of extreme weather events like wildfires, heat waves, and hurricanes. Research links our warming planet to increasing food insecurity as well. A new report from the United Nations warns that climate change decreases the nutritional value of important food crops like wheat and […]
Entrepreneur Sara Menker traded in her Wall Street gig to help solve the world’s mounting food crisis. In the next decade, she warned, the world’s food shortage could rival the financial crisis or dot-com crash in terms of its threat to government stability and economic safety. Menker’s company, Gro Intelligence, […]
The Central Valley is one the main food suppliers in the US, but it now faces a host of environmental concerns. In the wake of a six-year drought, the region’s mega-farms have begun to sink, and pumping groundwater has released toxic levels of arsenic into the water supply. A package […]
Dozens of ships containing dead bodies have washed up in Japan recently. All the evidence indicates that the “ghost ships” are coming from North Korea. It isn’t a new phenomenon, but is happening more and more often. One expert told BI it could be because of food scarcity in North […]
