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Climate change could reduce crop yields as soon as 2030
2014-03-18 13:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Climate change will hit crop yields in temperate and tropical regions earlier than first thought, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, warns that global warming of only 2C is likely to reduce yields of staple crops as early as the 2030s. Researchers from the University of Leeds analysed the results of 1,700 published studies of the impact that climate change will have on the yields of rice, maize and wheat. In 2007, a report from the Intergovernmental...
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