Medicine & TechnologyThe UN named 23 countries expected to experience acute food shortages towards the end of this year. The report also showed more than 150 million are already experiencing famine since last year.
It's not as colorful in an action movie as invaders from other galaxies, for example, but it seems that soil erosion might be just as deadly to humans. Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley warn that human food security is at risk from the accelerating rate of soil depletion.