Read article: Melting polar ice sheets will alter weather
Sea-level rise and melting polar ice sheets may not cause a climate catastrophe, but they will certainly change weather patterns unpredictably
Read article: Importing maize stabilizes prices at home
Policy could offset greater yield variability due to climate change
Read article: Climate scientists share Tyler Prize
$200,000 award goes to Michael Mann and Warren Washington
Read article: Food webs alter as warmer seas change colour
Reflected sunlight tells a story: one of deeper shading in an ever-warmer ocean. That is because climate change will also alter green growth in the high seas
Read article: Food shocks increase as world warms
Heat extremes harm harvests. So do floods, drought and high winds. Climate change spurs food shocks that threaten the supper table
Read article: Trees dying younger in Canada too
Fastest-growing trees in boreal forest show biggest decline in lifetime
Read article: How sustainable are bioplastics?
Greenhouse emissions from forest clearance to grow feedstock could mean 20-year carbon payback time
Read article: Increased lightning hazard ‘almost guarantee’
Climate change, urbanization and rising population likely to intensify human exposure to lightning
Read article: Coffee harvests face risk from rising heat
Global coffee harvests, which provide the drink of choice for millions and the livelihoods of many more, are in peril, not least from rising temperatures
Read article: Extreme rainfall events can be correlated over thousands of kilometres, study reveals
Unexpected “teleconnections” across the equator have also been observed
