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'Famine Not Seen in 40 Years': UN Warns Pompeo Decision in Yemen Could Lead to Hundreds of Thousands—If Not Millions—Dead

A malnourished child receives medical treatment at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen on December 13, 2020. (Photo: Mohammed Mohammed/Xinhua via Getty Images)

With Dire Assessment, Scientists Warn Humanity in Denial of Looming 'Collapse of Civilization as We Know It'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A firefighter surveys the Bond Fire—started by a structure fire that extended into nearby vegetation—on December 3, 2020 in Silverado, California. (Photo: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

"We aim to provide leaders with a realistic 'cold shower' of the state of the planet that is essential for planning to avoid a ghastly future."

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'Nature Is Under Siege': Scientists Sound Alarm About Insect Apocalypse

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A dragonfly sits in reedbeds on the Isle of Grain on August 31, 2016 in Isle of Grain, England. (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The lead author of the new research package notes that insects "are absolutely...

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'Wanton Cruelty': Pompeo to Declare Houthis a Terrorist Group, Sparking Fears of Worsening Famine in Yemen

Kenny Stancil, staff writer

Girls collect water from a well in Hajjah province, north Yemen on December 11, 2020. As a result of the U.S. State Department's decision, Oxfam noted, "humanitarian aid, goods, and personnel will be blocked from entering northern Yemen, where 70% of the population lives." (Photo: Mohammed Al-Wafi/Xinhua via Getty)

Oxfam called the designation "a counter-productive and dangerous policy that...

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Global scientists on Wednesday issued a new warming about the need for bold climate action on six key fronts. (Image: Oregon State University/YouTube)

One Year After Declaring Climate Emergency, Scientists Say 'Massive-Scale Mobilization' Necessary

The "exclusion of undocumented workers in Nebraska from receiving vaccines is hypocritical, racist, cruel, and only helps spread Covid-19," said Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas). (Photo: Natalie Behring/AFP via Getty Images)

'Barbaric': Nebraska Governor Puts Undocumented Meatpackers at Back of Vaccine Line

Two children eat a food supplement at a government clinic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Photo: Prinsloo/UNICEF)

Faced With Concurrent Crises, UNICEF Warns Millions of Children Threatened by 'Looming Famine'

Trump Administration Rejects Scientists' Advice on Nutrition, Maintaining Guidelines for Sugar and Alcohol

Sarah Gattiker stores the 24,200th species of seed in the vault at Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, which now holds 10% of the world's wild plant species, on October 15, 2009 in Sussex, England. (Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

'If You Own the Seeds You Own the Food System': Campaigners Demand Public Ownership to Counter Big Ag Privatization

'Merry... Christmas': Watch Rep. Debbie Dingell Drop House Gavel in Disgust Over GOP's Covid-19 Cruelty

The climate cost of organic meat production is as dear as that of conventionally produced animal products, a study published in December 2020 revealed. (Photo: Farm Sanctuary/Flickr/cc)

Climate Cost of Organic Meat Is Just as High as That of Conventionally Grown Animals: Study

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, locusts move through the Arabian Peninsula in Dhamar, Yemen on June 7, 2020. (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

UN Warns New Wave of Locust Swarms Threatens Food Security of Millions in East Africa

In Just 'Two-Ish Minutes,' AOC Details Progressive Accomplishments From First Two Years in Office

Convention chair Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) delivers remarks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center on July 25, 2016 in Philadelphia. (Photo: Paul Morigi/WireImage)

Biden Provokes Frustration by Sidestepping Rep. Fudge for USDA, Treating HUD as 'Consolation Prize'

'Pass the Damn Covid Relief Bill': Shoplifting of Essentials on Rise as Millions Struggle to Feed Families

"I feel pride today, but also a sense of shame I cannot seem to shake," said David Beasley, executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme. "We are having our media moment while hunger still rages." (Photo: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

Receiving Nobel Prize, World Food Programme Chief Warns 'We Are Losing Battle Against Hunger'

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Military Landfill to Organic Squash: Change Happens

A three-acre organic farm has taken root on Governor's Island in New York Harbor, home to military installations since 1794 and the Coast Guard until ten years ago. Tomatoes due in July. “It’s pretty trippy to see plants growing and the Statue of Liberty,” said Leslie Koch of the Governors Island Preservation and Education Corp.

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Family Farm Action Alliance

Family Farm Action Alliance Releases Toolkit for New Congress to Tackle the Food Monopoly Crisis

Family Farm Action

Family Farm Action Voices Concern Over Vilsack’s Return to USDA

Center for Food Safety

Legal Challenge Filed to Push By EPA, Pesticide Industry to Keep Bee-Killing Pesticide on Market

Center for Food Safety

Center for Food Safety Opposes Tom Vilsack’s Potential Nomination for Secretary of Agriculture

Center for Food Safety

To Protect Wild Steelhead, Salmon, Orcas, Environmental Groups Appeal Approval of Puget Sound Commercial Net Pen Aquaculture To Washington’s Supreme Court

Open Markets Institute

Family Farm Action Alliance Releases Pivotal Agricultural Consolidation Report in Partnership With Open Markets Institute

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Krissy Kasserman, Amanda Claire Starbuck

Tom Vilsack’s Cozy Relationship With Big Ag Makes Him A Non-Starter at USDA

Rajan Menon

Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity

Jim Hightower, Jane Kleeb

Make USDA 'The People’s Department' Again

Jim Hightower

Who Cares Who the Secretary of Agriculture Is?

Krissy Kasserman, Amanda Claire Starbuck

As We're Giving Thanks, Let's Resolve to Change Our Food System for the Better

Kari Hamerschlag, Christopher D. Cook

Biden’s Agriculture Secretary: Heitkamp Is the Wrong Choice

Bill C. Davis

An Alternate National Food Mandate

John Lynch

Global Food System Emissions Alone Threaten Warming Beyond 1.5°C—But We Can Act Now To Stop It

Jim Goodman

How Decades of Corporate-Friendly Farm Policies Wrecked Rural America—And Paved the Way for Trump

David Coman-Hidy

Half a Million Chickens Will Be Boiled Alive This Year