Sentences with phrase «widespread starvation»

The increased risk of hyperglycemia associated with prenatal exposure to famine is also passed down to the next generation, according to a new study of hundreds of families affected by widespread starvation in mid-20th Century China.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- The increased risk of hyperglycemia associated with prenatal exposure to famine is also passed down to the next generation, according to a new study of hundreds of families affected by widespread starvation in mid-20th Century China.

Churchill was ruthless about food and shipping, and the author condemns his decision not to divert supplies to prevent widespread starvation in Bengal in 1943 - 44, although she acknowledges that local officials were partly to blame.

The work traces violence and hardship so intense that they left a vivid record in people's bones: skull fractures indicating a surge of nonfatal and fatal head injuries and chemical evidence suggesting widespread starvation.

«The Population Bomb,» a controversial book by environmental scientist Paul Ehrlich predicting widespread starvation as a result of population growth, turned off a generation of thinkers, in part by being wrong (at least in the short term) and in part by seeming anti-human, continuing a tradition that stretches back to the «Dismal Theorem» of Thomas Malthus.

Yet Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich of «The Population Bomb» — the 1968 tome that warned of widespread starvation in the 1970s and «80s because of overpopulation — got round - the - clock coverage with less - than - usual skepticism from reporters.

Widespread starvation has been temporarily delayed by the «Green Revolution» — the introduction of miracle grains that multiply yields several times over.

Broecker warned that the consequences, perhaps only a few decades hence, in a world that would already be pressed to feed its soaring population, could be «widespread starvation.»