Photo: Warming May Cause Crop Failures, Food Shortages by 2030



A farmer walks through a rice field in Bali, Indonesia. A new study suggests that rice production throughout Asia will likely suffer due to climate change, as well as wheat and corn crops in southern Africa.

Photograph courtesy Marshall Burke/Science


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