A new study, involving roundworms, shows that starvation induces specific changes in so-called small RNAs and that these changes are inherited through at least three consecutive generations, ...

My father knew hunger intimately. In one of my earliest memories of him, we sat on opposite ends of a big brown leather couch in our Sudbury home, and I watched him ingest a fish. He tore into the ...

According to historians, the people who settled Jamestown, America's first permanent English community, arrived during the worst drought in 800 years. Accounts from the time tell of residents forced ...

What is it like to starve to death? It's an awful question, but it's the question of the moment. In what United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called a "war crime," thousands of people in ...

In the 1940s, as war spread in Europe and beyond, an American physiologist realised that starvation would surely follow but that little was known scientifically about its effects. Ancel Keys, a ...

Starvation in Gaza is clearly and intentionally caused by Israel, based on medical evidence, testimonies of humanitarian organizations, and direct statements by Israeli leaders Displaced Palestinians ...

Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib detailed the stages of starvation within 2 to 5 days in Gaza Gaza's blockade since March 2 has cut off almost all access to food, medicine, and aid Nearly 60,000 Palestinians ...

The average caloric intake of a granola bar is 180 calories — roughly the same number of calories that Jews imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto consumed on a daily basis. Determined to starve them out, ...