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Weather Extremes Slash Cereal Yields
2016-01-09 17:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Climate change may have already begun to take its toll of agriculture. New research suggests that drought and extreme heat in the last 50 years have reduced cereal production by up to 10%. And, for once, developed nations may have sustained greater losses than developing nations. Researchers have been warning for years that global warming as a consequence of rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmospherein turn, a pay-off from increased fossil fuel combustionwill result in a greater frequency...
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