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Study: We need to reduce meat-eating to avoid climate breakdown
This article discusses the need to reduce meat-eating to avoid climate breakdown. A major study also finds huge changes to farming are needed to avoid destroying Earth’s ability to feed its population.
Huge reductions in meat-eating are essential to avoid dangerous climate change, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet […]
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Study: Higher emissions could create a more precarious global food trade network.
This article discusses how higher emissions could create a more centralized—and hence precarious—global food trade network.
If the effects of climate change go unmitigated, the globe’s crucial agricultural trade network will shrink dramatically by 2050, a group of researchers show in a new paper. If this comes to pass, it […]
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New Climate Debate: How to Adapt to the End of the World
This article discusses a new climate debate: How to Adapt to the End of the World. Researchers are now thinking about the potential for a complete collapse of the earth’s climate, to the point where only a few will survive. They are thinking about how to prepare for […]
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Report: Hunger rising with global temperatures, UN report says
This article discusses a United Nations’ report that shows that hunger is rising with global temperatures.
Climate change is having a negative effect on global agriculture and is driving up the number of hungry people around the world, according to the United Nations’ 2018 State of Food Security […]
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Study: Radioactive fracking chemicals dumped in the Allegheny River a decade ago are still showing up in mussels
This article discusses a study of mussels that had been exposed to radioactive fracking chemicals. They bwere dumped in the Allegheny River a decade ago, and are still showing up in mussels – “This means it’s entering the food chain.”
Chemicals from fracking wastewater dumped into Pennsylvania’s […]
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Rising CO2 will leave crops—and millions of humans—less healthy
This article discusses how rising CO2 levels will affect food production. Scientists say certain staple foods such as rice and wheat will deliver less nutrition in 2050. Women, children and poor people will suffer most.
Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will render some major crops […]
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Study: Crop losses to pests will soar as climate warms
This article discusses the problems climate change will have on food production. Rising temperatures make insects eat and breed more, leading to food losses growing world population cannot afford, say scientists.
Rising global temperatures mean pests will devour far more of the world’s crops, according to the first global analysis […]
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Scientists: Offshore oil drilling would put Chesapeake Bay at risk
This article discusses how offshore drilling could impact the Chesapeake Bay. Many fear a spill would be inevitable and could reach the Bay and its resources under the right conditions.
After the Trump administration proposed allowing oil and gas exploration off the East Coast in January, the debate has largely focused on […]
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The Victims of Climate Change Are Already Here
This article discusses the reality of global warming affecting people now, not off in the future some time. With a new global summit approaching, communities in the southern United States are calling attention to the disaster scenarios they currently face.
In the new global reality, where each passing year […]
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‘Assisted migration’ could help plants survive climate change
This article discusses the problems facing plants because of global warming. Human intervention, mimicking the movement of a species, is already happening in the West.
Like many Westerners, giant sequoias came recently from farther east. Of course, “recent” is a relative term. “You’re talking millions of years (ago),” William Libby […]
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