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Study: Climate change could bring more disease, crop damage, fires to Colorado
2015-02-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Camera: Colorado could see more infectious disease, negative impacts on the elderly and people living in poverty, as well as stresses to water, cattle and crops as byproducts of future climate change, according to a comprehensive new report commissioned by the Colorado Energy Office. "The important takeaway is, here's what's important to Colorado," said Eric Gordon, co-lead editor of the 176-page report and managing director of the Western Water Assessment at the University of Colorado. "We're not talking...
Europe's food fight shifts after GM crop vote - TRFN
2015-01-26 20:08:56| Biotech - Topix.net
Campaign groups and the biotech industry are digging in for a new round of conflict, following the European Union's decision to allow member states to set their own rules on growing genetically modified organisms. Environmentalists who favour a GMO ban say the crops have not been properly tested - posing health risks for consumers and giving a small group of corporations too much control over food supplies.
When it comes to variations in crop yield, climate has a big say
2015-01-22 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE:Â The connection between climate and yield variability differs around the world. It is strongest in the red areas and weakest in the light green and gray areas. view more </…
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Climate change threatens staple potato crop high Andes
2015-01-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: A silent threat has emerged on the last twenty years in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, 3,000 meters high above the sea level on the Andean plateau. The rise of temperature in the remote part of the country has endangered the survival of over 2,000 Quechua indigenous families who have been traditionally growing potatoes for centuries. Abrupt climate variation and shortage of rainfall patterns over the last three decades are the core of this change. In December 2014, Peru hosted the UN climate...
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CME: WASDE Provided USDA’s Final 2014 Crop Estimates
2015-01-15 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - A quick note on Monday’s record-high FI hog slaughter: It really wasn’t all on Monday. USDA’s estimate for Monday was a record high daily total of 455,000 head, write Steve Meyer and Len Steiner.
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