Study: Climate change could harm crops
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Climate change could drive many wild relatives of plants such as the potato and the peanut into extinction, threatening a valuable source of genes necessary to help these food crops fight pests and drought, an international research group reported.
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The planet's temperature has climbed to levels not seen in thousands of years, warming that has begun to affect plants and animals, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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NASA links growth with climate A warmer climate could disrupt the marine food chain, new research from NASA suggests, potentially damaging fisheries and other marine ecosystems.â¦
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Sea level rise projections are underestimating the impact of climate change on the oceans, a study suggest.
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A global warming trend will reduce farm yields and make food supplies scarcer over the next century, an environmental group said Thursday, citing data from the United Nations and the National Academy of Sciences and trends in the world rice market.
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Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends.
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U.S. scientists have determined a link between climate change and the origins of maize and squash cultivation in Mexico.
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Climate change could worsen Africa's struggle to feed itself, but simple steps &#151; a cistern to catch rainwater, a solar panel, or hardier seeds for crops &#151; could help the continent's subsistence farms, specialists and activists said Friday.
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Researchers worldwide are collecting seeds from wild plants to guard against the ravages of climate change.
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Climate change is exacerbating the spread of  infectious diseases, new research suggests.
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A  Bush administration report suggests that evidence of global warming has begun to affect animal and plant populations in visible ways, and that rising temperatures in North America are due in part to human activity.
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Scientists warned Tuesday that a long-term increase in global temperature of 3.5 degrees could threaten Latin American water supplies, reduce
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Climate scientists are predicting the effects of global warming on the nation's most geographically diverse state, and they say the landscape of California could be drastically different by the end of this century, if not sooner.
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Climatic change is "very likely" down to human activities, the global body on climate science will say.
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Extreme rains, interspersed with droughts, could spell disaster for the country's agriculture-based economy, according to research spanning five decades of data.
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The Earth's climate is out of balance and warming as a result of human activities, a leading scientific society warns.
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Climate change could have global security implications on a par with nuclear war unless urgent action is taken, a report said on Wednesday.