There has been a spike in visitors at Snow Canyon State Park as beloved Mojave Desert tortoises make their way out in the ...

There have been several teen takeover events, along with concerns about illegal guns and drugs circulating in the community. With support from residents, First Coast Crime Stoppers plays a key role in ...

Biologist Paul Ehrlich, author of 1968’s ‘Population Bomb,’ which predicted a dire global future, died on Monday.

What has the world's population climbed to now? We remember reading that it recently surpassed 8 billion souls. After we Googled, it turns out the number of people on the planet is up to 8.2 billion ...

An all-time high number of people - 45 million - could be pushed to acute hunger if the conflict in the Middle East does not end by the middle of the yea ...

This picture invariably brings tears to my eyes. It could be the logo, literally and metaphorically, for current health care policy.

CANTON, Ohio (WJW) – Parents have entered guilty pleas in the death of a 3-year-old in Canton. On May 5, Canton police responded to a home in the 3100 block of Gilbert Circle Northeast for a report of ...

A man and woman were sentenced to eight to 12 years in prison for the starvation death of a 3-year-old boy in their care. Jamie L. Thompson and Demetres S. Givens pleaded guilty to involuntary ...

KAMPALA, Uganda—Ten million people face hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s east, and it isn’t because there is no food to be had. It is largely because people can’t get what food there is.

Recent global crises have exposed the limits of a universal mortality threshold for declaring famine—an approach that can obscure how famine actually unfolds across different populations. In a paper ...

ASCENSION PARISH, La. (WAFB) - Would a site visit at the home of a 5-year-old who died of apparent starvation have possibly saved his life? That’s a burning question after the WAFB I-TEAM learned ...

A Fond du Lac woman faces a felony charge after authorities say her 12-year-old son, who had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, died from starvation while in her care, according to a criminal complaint ...