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

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

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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?

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.

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