(CNN) — Here is a look at famine, a severe and prolonged hunger in a significant portion of a region or country’s population that results in malnutrition and death by starvation and disease.

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 ...

Dorian died in poverty in the Bogside in 1914. He would have been forgotten but that, in 1890, he composed a lengthy account of the Famine’s transformation of his homeplace. In powerful prose ...

One of the casualties of suspending funding for USAID programs and threatening to shut the agency down has been FEWS NET, the global Famine Early Warning System, which I helped create 40 years ago ...

His latest book is Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed by a novel pathogen, the fungus-like organism Phytophthora infestans.

Famine, according to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has already taken hold in more than 10 areas, with a further 17 reported to be on the brink of famine. Nevertheless, despite the rapidly ...

X-23, a breakout success in X-Men comics, offers a relatable figure similar to Wolverine with an interesting backstory. Spyke, a newcomer, represents viewers in X-Men: Evolution, serving as a lens ...

Previously, she founded The Mary Sue. Brave New World gets deeper into X-Men lore, however, in centering Japan as the face of the other nations competing with the American government to claim all ...

Marvel X-Men Dice Throne is where tabletop gaming meets comic books. It is a newly released, fast-paced dice-rolling combat game where you can play as one of the X-Men, including Iceman ...