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Weather extremes prompt early grape harvest in Champagne, Germany
2018-08-21 13:46:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Two wine trade bodies have announced exceptionally early harvests as they report long droughts and a wet winter.
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Globalised economy more susceptible to weather extremes, scientists warn
2016-06-12 13:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The globalisation of the world's economy this century has made it far more vulnerable to the impacts of extreme weather, including heat stress on workers, scientists said on Friday. A study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Columbia University showed production losses caused by high temperatures, predicted to rise further with climate change, now spread more easily from one place to another as they ripple through global supply chains. In just a decade, the susceptibility...
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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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Weather extremes spur farmers' interest in cover crops
2015-11-21 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Weather extremes have reignited farmers' interest in planting cover crops, a traditional farming practice that is gaining renewed popularity in Kansas and other states as a way to help combat climate change and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to it. A New York-based environmental group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, released a report Thursday on the benefits of cover crops typically non-commodities that protect the soil between harvests of cash crops. The practice...
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Study finds weather extremes harmful to grasslands
2015-09-30 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Fluctuations in extreme weather events, such as heavy rains and droughts, are affecting ecosystems in unexpected ways -- creating "winners and losers" among plant species that humans depend upon for food. Arizona State University investigators conducted a six-year experiment on the effects of climatic variability on desert grassland. The study revealed that when unpredictable weather patterns create alternating wet and dry years, ecosystem productivity declines -- mostly because grasses diminish,...
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