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Study: Climate change driving spread of crop pests

2013-09-02 11:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BusinessGreen: The potential impact of climate change on food production has again been highlighted with the publication of a new study warning that rising temperatures are enabling the spread of crop pests into new latitudes. The paper from scientists at the University of Exeter and the University of Oxford, published in the journal Nature Climate Change this week, calculates that certain crop pests are heading towards the North and South poles at a rate of three kilometres a year, expanding the area where...

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