UBC: Climate change has been impacting global fisheries for the past four decades by driving species towards cooler, deeper waters,…
Guardian: Potsdam Institute projection suggests population growth would increase imported food, even without climate change.
Although many countries choose to import…
Guardian: Drought, rocketing bread prices, food and water shortages have all blighted parts of the Middle East. Analysts at the…
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MZUZU, Malawi (AlertNet) – Less than three years after Ezelina Nyirongo reluctantly abandoned cultivation of her favourite local…
Vietnam.net: Final results of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded study, that were released at a regional workshop…
CCRC; Aus: Shallow coral reefs may be even more susceptible to increasing acidity caused by heightened levels of carbon dioxide…
EEA: There are more than 10 000 alien species present in Europe, and the rate of new introductions has accelerated…
The University of Adelaide: A worldwide review of global rainfall data led by the University of Adelaide has found that…
Global warming from greenhouse gases affects rainfall patterns in the world differently than that from solar heating, according to a…
Global Crop Diversity Trust: New Pact Invests US$109 Million to Secure Raw Genetic Material Critical to Maintaining Food Production Worldwide
Concerned that…
FAO:
Key Findings:
* Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3…
The Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Today, we produce about four billion metric tonnes of food per annum. Yet due to…
AlertNet : As glaciers melt in the Andes, western areas of South America can expect a period of repeated, extreme flooding…
Dirty energy has created a world of Dirty Weather. Today, climate disruption affects us all. And…
Guardian: Storms have battered ancient towns and left large swaths of farmland in Tuscany under water, prompting a warning from…
CIAT: Higher temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns could transform the agricultural landscape of Central America, threatening the livelihoods of…
NASA: Nearly two thirds of the contiguous United States was experiencing some level of drought by the end of August…
(AlertNet) – Climate change is a major threat to the world’s food supply and to biodiversity, and prompt action to…
Oceana’s new report, Ocean-Based Food Security Threatened in a High CO2 World ranks nations to show which are most vulnerable…
LONDON (AlertNet) – Malnutrition is likely to be the most serious health threat linked to climate shifts in the coming…
TED Talks: Western countries throw out nearly half of their food, not because it’s inedible — but because it doesn’t…
InterAction Council: The world today confronts a water crisis with critical implications for peace, political stability and economic development, experts…
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Ukraine to Yellowstone, in Pakistan and Kazakhstan, the earth is parched
* Drought in the Black Sea region…
Guradian: Climate change’s impact on future food prices is being underestimated, Oxfam warned in a report on Wednesday. The development…
World Bank: Global food prices soared by 10 percent in July from a month ago, with maize and soybean reaching…
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies: Life in the world’s oceans faces far greater change and risk of large-scale…
The 2012 Marine Climate Change in Australia Report Card demonstrates that climate change is having significant impacts on Australia’s marine ecosystems.
Key…
FAO: The severe deterioration of maize crop prospects in the United States following extensive drought damage pushed up maize prices…
Oxford Research Group: Rising food prices point to a potential crisis later this year as poor communities across the world…
treehugger: The drought gets worse: The US Drought Monitor reports that areas on the nation under extreme drought conditions in…
Climateprogress: The onslaught of extreme weather and record temperatures this year have had an impact on people globally, directly through…
AlertNet: The national Drought Monitor recently declared a drought for almost 80 percent of the contiguous United States, ranging in…
NOAA: Based on the Palmer Drought Index, severe to extreme drought affected about 33 percent of the contiguous United States…
ThinkProgress: The U.S. Agriculture Department has issued a natural disaster declaration for more than 1,000 U.S. counties facing severe drought. This…
Science: The burning of fossil fuels emits some 35 billion metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. That…
Guardian: Oceans’ rising acid levels have emerged as one of the biggest threats to coral reefs, acting as the…
SeedDaily: On a planet with sufficient food for all, today almost half a billion women and children under 5 in…
AlertNet: Over the last few years, rice crops have been failing in Indramayu not only because of dry conditions but…
IIASA: A new online data portal developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the…
RTCC: Overfishing, warming waters, ocean acidification and pollution are all terms we are becoming more aware of as it slowly…
(IPS) – Without major reductions in the use of fossil fuels, sunlight is to kill an unknown number of ocean…
ClimateCentral: Climate scientists have been saying for years that one of the many downsides of a warming planet is that…
RTT: The journal Nature Climate Change contends that factors such as market policies or oil prices have comparatively little effect…
NRDC: Across the U.S., the impacts of climate change on water resources are already being seen. Warmer temperatures, changes in…
(Reuters) – About 4 million hectares of crops are suffering from a severe drought in China that has hit 13…
Oxfam: Some 13 million people are at severe risk from a food crisis which is set to escalate into a…
World Bank: A powerful coalition of governments, international organizations, civil society groups and private interests are joining together under the…
IFAD: Representatives of farmers and rural producers from all over the world gathered at the Rome headquarters of the International…
NASA: Coral reefs are spectacular underwater ecosystems. However, they are deteriorating at an alarming rate, due mainly to human activity…
