Armed conflict leads to the destruction of crops, livestock, land, and water, and disrupts infrastructure, markets, and the human resources required for food production, distribution, and safe consumption.
Combatants frequently use hunger as a weapon: they use siege to cut off food supplies and productive capacities, starve opposing populations into submission, and hijack food aid intended for civilians.
Even after wars have ceased, landmines continue to exact high costs in terms of human life, economic and social development and agricultural production.
A neat online service for comparing an area, a hand-drawn polygon, over one area to another dynamically (aka. so that you can move the area you are comparing to). Uses Google Maps as a background layer.
A solar flare is a large explosion in the Sun's atmosphere that can release as much as 6 × 1025 joules of energy[1](about a sixth of the total energy output of the Sun each second). The term is also used to refer to similar phenomena in other stars, where the term stellar flare applies.