Sentences with phrase «food shortages continue»

CARACAS, Venezuela — The mayor of Chacao in Venezuela's capital Caracas has warned that Caribbean islands and Colombia may suffer an influx of refugees from Venezuela if food shortages continue in the country.

The idea behind this is that when not much food is around, the body burns fewer calories in order to conserve energy, just in case the food shortage continues.

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And — no matter how generous the food aid — food shortages will continue unless there are investments in farming and agriculture.

Puerto Rico police said Wednesday officers have arrested 36 people so far for looting and stealing as millions of the island's residents continue to struggle with shortages in food, water, and gasoline after Hurricane Maria.

These include the ability to bring new, innovative products to the market; progress in oncology, such as the approval of Genentech's drug Avastin for breast cancer and advances in the use of gene therapy, despite some setbacks; continuing progress in research on stem cells; the emergence of treatments for previously untreated diseases; and solutions for food and fuel shortages, such as biocrops and biofuels.

As a warming climate continues to accelerate the summer ice melts, it is important to understand how polar bears are — or are not — adapting to even more extreme food shortages.

In production animal areas where there is a shortage of veterinarians, we want to continue to provide incentives and to help enable schools of veterinary medicine and others to see the tremendous opportunities there are for veterinarians in the food animal sector.

Continued funding will permit the USDA to select veterinarians who will agree to practice food supply medicine and veterinary public health in federally designated veterinary shortage situations.

The food shortages and riots that have wracked the world in recent months, from the Philippines to Egypt to Haiti, have starkly dramatized the moral bankruptcy inherent in our government's continued subsidies for the production of corn ethanol.

Guardian: National Intelligence Council also sees water and food shortages and suggests world is at a «critical juncture in human history» A US intelligence portrait of the world in 2030 predicts that China will be the largest economic power, climate change will create instability by contributing to water and food shortages, and there will be [continue reading...]

To insure the public does not become complacent as the 16 - year hiatus in rising global temperatures continues, the media is spammed with untested models claiming rising CO2 is and will spread death and destruction via food shortages and disease.