Scientists in Sweden have taken an important step toward fighting potato late blight, a plant disease that once triggered a ...

As we celebrate Irish culture on Saint Patrick's Day, we should also remember their darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840's leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the potato crop ...

As we celebrate Irish culture this week on St. Patrick’s Day, we also should remember Ireland’s darkest moment. Famine struck Ireland in the 1840s, leading to mass starvation. Disease had ruined the ...

This is Great Hunger, a mini-series analyzing the political decisions that have led to mass starvation in some of the most food insecure countries on Earth. Down the road from where I grew up, along ...

What caused the Irish famine? A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era. Old Chapel Lane, Skibbereen, County Cork ...