Chris Funk

UC Santa Barbara / US Geological Survey / Famine Early Warning Systems Network

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Chris Funk is a research director for the Climate Hazards Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a geographer with the US Geological Survey and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network.

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We know summers are typically hot, but does it feel even hotter than usual?

UCSB researchers say heat waves are getting worse, and we can do something about it

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Seventy-million people are "food insecure." Famine has been declared already in one country and predicted in three more — in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

World hunger: What's America's role?

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