Researchers are using diary entries, travel notes, religious registers, and other primary historical records to better understand extreme climate shifts in Transylvania during the 16th century.

A woman sits with her child at a local hospital as she receive treatment for malnutrition at the border town of Dadaab, Kenya. Schalk van Zuydam / AP A Somali child from southern Somalia is ...

What is famine? Famine is not a rhetorical or emotive term ... East Africa is facing its worst drought in 40 years and there are now over 1.4 million people displaced by drought in Somalia alone.

Afghanistan has been facing a drought-induced hunger crisis since last year. This summer’s political upheaval has kneecapped response efforts, pushing the country into famine. It’s an emergency of ...

Carcasses of livestock ravished by drought in Liboi sub-county in Garissa ... UN-backed report: War-torn Sudan faces 'widening' famine crisis “We have been carrying out interventions such ...

and is credited with mitigating the effects of a devastating drought in the Horn of Africa in 2016. It has been used to try to target aid during the current famine in Sudan as the war continues there.