Genetically altering crops may be key to helping them adapt to extreme temperatures. But shrinking funds and social acceptance stand in the way.
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Genetically altering crops may be key to helping them adapt to extreme temperatures. But shrinking funds and social acceptance stand in the way.
By Rebecca Dzombak
The world’s bread baskets are heating up, threatening the global food supply. Climate change has already shrunk yields for major crops like wheat and maize, and crop losses are likely to worsen in the coming decades.
But researchers are trying to avoid that future by helping plants deal with heat.
The planet's food system faces growing risks from climate change, a new study says, and it's especially at peril in the U.S.
Researchers say average daily losses for every 1C the planet heats up could add to equivalent of not having breakfast
Even with realistic adaptation, crop yields will fall as temperatures rise
A United Nations report warns of the urgent need to adapt farming and livestock practices in the face of increasingly frequent…
Severe heatwaves in commonly hot regions could leave farmers unable to work outside, with livestock mortality rates expected to…
Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable
