Climate Change Could Crush Wine Industry
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ By any measure, California wines rank among the best in the world. But a 2-degree rise in temperature could make Napa Valley chardonnay a thing of the past.  A couple more degrees and Napa would no longer be prime territory for wine of any kind.
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Wine is less a beverage than an elixir of life in France, but the country's vintners say they're vexed by a problem that threatens their livelihood &#151; too much of a good thing and not enough people drinking it.
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Kew Gardens says human-induced warming is damaging plant life and calls for emissions cuts.
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Recent storms, droughts and heat waves are probably being caused by global warming, which means the effects of climate change are coming
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Payments to Australia's drought-hit farmers could be linked to climate change schemes, under new plans.
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The world's biggest beer festival, the Munich Oktoberfest, has broken with tradition to allow the sale of mulled wine to warm up drinkers during an unusually cold spell.
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By MARTA FALCONI ROME - Imagine a world where Scandinavia produces wines to rival Italy's fabled Chianti region. It could come to just that by the end of the century, experts in Italy warn, if global warming continues unchecked.
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YENDA, Australia  - The winding lines of shipping containers outside Casella Wines may mark the high-point of Australia's A$3 billion wine export market as drought and possible climate shift bite.
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A German riesling has been named  world's best in one of Australia's leading wine contests,  dealing a blow to Australian New World wine hopes, already  shaken by the worst drought for a century
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A huge mountain glacier in the Andes could disappear in five years as a result of climate change, an academic warns.
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Ecologists fear that global warming will make protected landscapes inhospitable to prized species.
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Climate change is affecting Europe faster than the rest of the world and rising temperatures could transform the Mediterranean into a salty and stagnant sea
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Europe's top wine-producing countries could be forced to dig up many vineyards under proposed EU reforms.
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After New World producers Australia and Chile, French winegrowers could soon face new competition from Britain, as global warming helps grapes take root in milder cross-Channel climes, scientists say.
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The 2004 harvest got rolling in Bordeaux this week under sunny skies clouded only by fears that a large crop could deepen the French wine industry's oversupply crisis.
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Climate change is affecting Europe faster than the rest of the world and rising temperatures could transform the Mediterranean into a salty and stagnant sea, Italian experts said Wednesday.
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Global warming is approaching the point of no return, after which widespread drought, crop failure and rising sea levels will be irreversible, an international climate change task force warned Monday.