" This unusual climatic episode was triggered by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815. The volcanic explosion was so massive that it sent a colossal amount of ash and sulfur dioxide ...

Padraic X. Scanlan is an associate professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. His latest ...

We remember the great generosity of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, who donated to Ireland's Great Hunger relief. Lincoln was one of 15,000 people worldwide to donate money ...

In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is ...

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...

How poor Irish Catholics were forced to choose between converting to Protestantism or starvation during Ireland's Great Hunger and how "take the soup" became etched in Ireland's psyche. As we ...

The civil war has forced millions of people from their homes and aid agencies describe it as the world’s worst humanitarian and displacement crisis. We spoke to Kristine Hambrouck, the United ...

With Robert F. Kennedy Jr. installed as the Health and Human Services secretary, the U.S. food system is set to face intense scrutiny from policymakers in both parties. Americans today are saddled ...

A Sudanese paramilitary force locked in a war with the army has placed new constraints on aid deliveries to territories where it is seeking to cement its control, including areas where famine is ...