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Rising Temperatures Melting Away Global Food Security
12:56 pm in energy, Food & Health, food security, Science & Technology by TreeHugger
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Heat waves clearly can destroy crop harvests. The world saw high heat decimate Russian wheat in 2010. Crop ecologists have found that each 1-degree-Celsius rise in temperature above the optimum can reduce grain harvests by 10 percent. But the indirect effects of higher temperatures Read the full story on TreeHugger
