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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, built in Norway in 2008, is the world’s largest secure seed storage site. (Matthias Heyde photo courtesy Government of Norway via Flickr)

‘Doomsday’ seed vault entrance repaired after thaw of Arctic ice

By Alister Doyle May 21, 2017

Oslo | Reuters — Norway is repairing the entrance of a “doomsday” seed vault on an Arctic island after an unexpected thaw of permafrost let water into a building meant as a deep freeze to safeguard the world’s food supplies. The water, limited to the 15-metre entrance hall in the melt late last year, had […] Read more

Last five years were hottest on record

By Alister Doyle November 8, 2016

Morocco/Reuters – The past five years were the hottest on record with mounting evidence that heat waves, floods and rising sea levels are stoked by man-made climate change, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday. Some freak weather events would have happened naturally but the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said greenhouse gas emissions had […] Read more

Livestock, Machinery

California to limit pollutants from diesel exhaust to cow gas

By Sharon Bernstein September 19, 2016

Reuters — California on Monday moved to restrict air pollutants from sources as diverse as diesel trucks and cow flatulence, the latest of several efforts in the most populous U.S. state to reduce emissions leading to climate change. Under a bill signed Monday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, the state will cut emissions of methane […] Read more

A supercomputer-modeled simulation showing the expected impact of global warming on Earth’s surface temperatures. (Photo courtesy NASA)

Crops

Man-made warming dates back almost 200 years, study says

By Alister Doyle August 25, 2016

Oslo | Reuters — Man-made greenhouse gases began to nudge up the Earth’s temperatures almost 200 years ago, as the Industrial Revolution gathered pace, far earlier than previously thought. Greenhouse gas emissions from industry left their first traces in the temperatures of tropical oceans and the Arctic around 1830, researchers wrote in a recent journal […] Read more

Livestock

After scorching heat, Earth likely to get respite in 2017

By Alister Doyle August 17, 2016

Oslo | Reuters — The Earth is likely to get relief in 2017 from record scorching temperatures that bolstered governments’ resolve last year in reaching a deal to combat climate change, scientists said Wednesday. July was the hottest single month since records began in the 19th century, driven by greenhouse gases and an El Nino […] Read more

Crops

Okanagan producers adopt climate adaptation strategy

By Farmtario Staff July 25, 2016

Agricultural producers and local governments in the Okanagan region are getting ready for the possibility of hotter, drier summers and different pest pressures under climate change. The B.C. Agriculture and Food Climate Action Initiative (CAI) brought agricultural producers together with local governments and provincial agencies to identify collaborative solutions and actions to adapt to the […] Read more

Crops

Globalized economy seen more susceptible to weather extremes

By Megan Rowling June 13, 2016

Barcelona | Thomson Reuters Foundation — The globalization 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 Friday. A study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Columbia University showed production losses caused by high temperatures, predicted […] Read more

Culicoides sonorensis. (Scott Bauer photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock

Livestock seen threatened as biting insects press north

By Farmtario Staff September 23, 2015

Bluetongue’s most recent appearance in the Canadian cattle herd may be a taste of what’s to come as insect species expand northward, a new study warns. Anna Zuliani, previously a graduate student in veterinary medicine at the University of Calgary (UCVM), recently published a paper on how geographical distribution of biting midges relates to the […] Read more

Crops, Markets

Severe ‘food shocks’ seen more likely due to extreme weather

By Kate Kelland August 14, 2015

London | Reuters — Extreme weather such as intense storms, droughts and heatwaves will cause more frequent and severe food shortages as the global climate and food supply systems change, British and U.S. experts warned Friday. The pressure on the world’s food supplies is so great, and the increase in extreme weather events so rapid, […] Read more

The red-belted bumblebee, shown here visiting a lupine, is among the species shown to be “responding very badly” to climate changes across continents. (Jeremy Kerr photo)

Livestock

Study of bumblebee decline points to climate ‘vise’

By Dave Bedard July 9, 2015

A study of the shrinking range of bumblebee habitat suggests farmers relying on those species to pollinate crops may soon have to look elsewhere, barring a reversal of climate change — or, perhaps, an “assisted migration.” An international study of specimens from 31 species of bumblebees in North America and 36 such species in Europe, as […] Read more

Tag Archives climate change — page 17

‘Doomsday’ seed vault entrance repaired after thaw of Arctic ice

Last five years were hottest on record

California to limit pollutants from diesel exhaust to cow gas

Man-made warming dates back almost 200 years, study says

After scorching heat, Earth likely to get respite in 2017

Okanagan producers adopt climate adaptation strategy

Globalized economy seen more susceptible to weather extremes

Livestock seen threatened as biting insects press north

Severe ‘food shocks’ seen more likely due to extreme weather

Study of bumblebee decline points to climate ‘vise’

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