Insights and Stories on Climate Change

UN flags need to reduce meat consumption to curb land use impact on global warming

Aug. 8, 2019 at 7:42 pm CDT

London/Geneva | Reuters — Global meat consumption must fall to curb global warming, reduce growing strains on land and water and improve food security, health and biodiversity, a United Nations report on the effects of climate change concluded. Although the report stopped short of explicitly advocating going meat-free, it called […]

Tories’ climate plan focused on green investment

Jun. 20, 2019 at 4:26 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

Climate change has U.S. fund managers adjusting agriculture investments

May. 2, 2019 at 8:21 pm CDT

By David Randall

U.S. government report says climate change will batter economy

Nov. 23, 2018 at 7:16 pm CST

By Reuters

World crop briefs: North Carolina losing crops, livestock to Florence

Sep. 19, 2018 at 12:41 pm CDT

By MarketsFarm Team

Canada’s ag output seen likely rising under climate change

Sep. 18, 2018 at 6:31 pm CDT

CNS Canada — A new United Nations report suggests just how climate change will reshape agriculture by 2050 — and that Canada’s production capacity stands to benefit. International trade will play an ever-larger role in helping to feed people in food-deficient regions, as warmer temperatures and less precipitation will damage […]

By MarketsFarm Team

Community to ‘transform’ Guelph’s Kemptville ag campus

Mar. 19, 2018 at 4:22 am CDT

The home municipality for Ontario Agricultural College’s (OAC) former Kemptville campus is set to remake the site as an “education and community hub.” The municipality of North Grenville, which includes Kemptville, about 40 km south of Ottawa, closed a deal in December to purchase the Kemptville ag campus, with the […]

By Staff

‘Doomsday’ seed vault entrance repaired after thaw of Arctic ice

May. 21, 2017 at 12:33 am CDT

Oslo | Reuters — Norway is repairing the entrance of a “doomsday” seed vault on an Arctic island after an unexpected thaw of permafrost let water into a building meant as a deep freeze to safeguard the world’s food supplies. The water, limited to the 15-metre entrance hall in the […]

By alister-doyle

Last five years were hottest on record

Nov. 8, 2016 at 4:00 pm CST

Morocco/Reuters – The past five years were the hottest on record with mounting evidence that heat waves, floods and rising sea levels are stoked by man-made climate change, the United Nations weather agency said on Tuesday. Some freak weather events would have happened naturally but the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) […]

By alister-doyle

California to limit pollutants from diesel exhaust to cow gas

Sep. 19, 2016 at 5:29 pm CDT

Reuters — California on Monday moved to restrict air pollutants from sources as diverse as diesel trucks and cow flatulence, the latest of several efforts in the most populous U.S. state to reduce emissions leading to climate change. Under a bill signed Monday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, the state […]

By Sharon Bernstein

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