Tropical crops could suffer as climate change brings longer dry spells
Longer, hotter and drier spells in countries around the world due to climate change could hit important global crops within the next 50 years.
Longer, hotter and drier spells in countries around the world due to climate change could hit important global crops within the next 50 years.
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In 2015, to combat the urgent threats posed by climate change, most of the world's countries came together to establish the Paris Agreement, an ambitious plan to prevent the global temperature from rising 2 degrees C above ...
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Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) have developed a complex hydrological model for forecasting dry spells lasting several weeks with high spatial resolution. These predictions ...
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