Food harvests dragged lower by global warming
Posted Thu, 05 May 2011 18:11:00 GMT by Martin Leggett
Harvests of corn and wheat are already wilting under the rising temperatures seen since 1980, says a team from Stanford University. They publish their study results - which looks at what crop yields would have have been without climate change - today in Science Express. In contrast, rice and soya crops, and US farmers in general, are so far weathering the global warming storm - but that may be about to change.
Food harvests dragged lower by global warming