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How climate change and a deadly fungus threaten our coffee supply

2014-06-02 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Quartz: In the next 24 hours, the world will guzzle 1.6 billion cups of coffee, the most popular beverage on the planet besides water and tea. It`s big business, too: Global coffee exports totaled $28.6 billion in 2013--after oil, it is the world`s most traded commodity. But there`s something else that likes coffee even more than humans: Hemileia vastatrix, better known as coffee rust or roya disease. It`s a fungal parasite that survives on coffee tree leaves, and in the 2012-13 crop year alone, it caused...

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Sea-level rise is already eating our coasts

2014-05-26 14:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: We are a coastal country, says Susanne C. Moser, a convening lead author for the National Climate Assessments Coasts chapter. The U.S. has 94,000 miles of coastline and more than $1 trillion in coastal infrastructure. Coastal lifelines, such as water and energy infrastructure, and nationally important assets, such as ports, tourism, and fishing sites, all are increasingly vulnerable to sea-level rise, storm surge, erosion, flooding, and related hazards.

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Climate Change May Be Killing All Our Fancy Coffee

2014-05-18 16:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Wire: The American government is stepping in to help farmers in Central America battle a disease that is devastating coffee crops in several important coffee-producing countries. The disease is a fungus known as "coffee rust," it sounds absolutely terrifying, and it could be enabled by climate change. What does it do? Attacks. The roya fungus is taking a toll in places like Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, and Honduras. In Guatemala, a national emergency has been declared. First, parts...

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Human activity is not "causing these dramatic changes to our climate"

2014-05-13 22:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PolitiFact: Scientists have been issuing more new reports on the irreversible effects of climate change in recent weeks. Two groups reported on May 12, 2014, that the global sea level will rise at least 10 feet, accelerating to a dangerous pace after the next century. Just a day before those reports were released, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sat down with ABC's Jonathan Karl on This Week. Talk turned to climate change, where the possible Republican presidential candidate denied a link between humans and the...

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