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Adapting to Climate Change Will Be Challenging – India Drought
India is in the midst of its second drought in four years, with rainfall roughly 20 percent below average nationwide, and 70% below average in Punjab, its food basket region, reports Robert Eshelman at ClimateWire. Agriculture employs close to a … Continue reading
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Climate Change Encourages US Drought, Then Pests
Colorado farmers already plagued by a debilitating drought and limited groundwater are now fighting crop-eating insects who like the hot, dry weather that has settled over the state and elsewhere, reports Monte Whaley at the Denver Post. Grasshoppers, an annual … Continue reading
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Record Midwest Heat Wave Damages Crops
What makes this recent Midwest heat wave so “out of whack”, says National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Keeney, is that so much of the Mid west has been hit so early in the summer with such a long, dry and … Continue reading
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Chocolate Threatened by Climate Change – New Report
Scientists say climate change will eventually claim many victims -– including, according to a new report, chocolate, reports Tiffany Hsu at the Los Angeles Times. As temperatures increase and weather trends change, the main growing regions for cocoa could shrink … Continue reading
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Tagged chocolate, climate change, climate change reports, cocoa, crops, environment, extreme weather, global warming, grapes, peanuts
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Heat of Global Warming Could Already Be Harming Crops
In recent years, those who monitor crops have been most worried about harmful changes in the global water cycle under global warming – think droughts, severe storms, and floods, for example. Now, a new global warming worry has sprung up, … Continue reading
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Price of Peanut Butter Rising, Largely Due to Climate Change
A long-standing lunchtime staple of most American households, peanut butter, will be rising in price up to 30% or more in supermarkets nationwide starting in November, reports Paul Ziobro at the Wall Street Journal. Another hot dry summer in the … Continue reading
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