The total area of these habitats is about 13,000 square km (5,000 square miles), and in recent times periodic mass flowering and die-offs of bamboo have brought starvation for some populations.
As in an action movie, there's a constant tick-tock, the explorers must get through the river gorge before the spring thaw breaks up the ice pack and frees a deadly, rushing torrent; they need to cross the mountains and reach the Yukon before winter's freeze brings starvation.
Sometimes tooth loss is the cause of death, as it brings on starvation.
His policies thereafter brought widespread starvation to that republic, especially in 1932 33, when possibly millions may have died.
Adichie was born seven years after the end of the war that brought chaos, starvation and mass killings to the people, largely Igbos, of what was then Eastern Nigeria.
European colonization of the Americas brought smallpox, starvation and warfare that decimated indigenous populations.
In the near future, an unspecified catastrophe has brought widespread starvation and social collapse.
Although it sounds a pretty excessive thing to do, when contemplating the horror and suffering that runaway climate change might bring (like, er, mass starvation and the half the species on Earth getting wiped out), protests of this sort seem logical to me.
His legs swelled up like balloons, the effect of what Mrs. Song had come to recognize as edema fluid retention brought on by starvation.
His legs swelled up like balloons, the effect of what Mrs. Song had come to recognize as edema — fluid retention brought on by starvation.
