Voice of America: As Russian wheat withers under a record-breaking heat wave, driving up grain prices on global commodity markets, a new study shows rice production, too, has suffered in recent decades from rising temperatures. Experts say it may be the latest warning of how climate change in some key farming regions could threaten world food supplies. In the new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers examined six years of data from 227 farms in six major ......
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Russia’s damaged wheat: A glimpse of the future?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 13th, 2010
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