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Oct. 23 (UPI) --In many places, climate change is expected to bring hotter, drier weather. In a new study, published Friday in the journal The Plant Cell, scientists considered whether an alternative ...

Insects are going to love it when the world turns hotter in the coming years. Not only will they spread more disease — they will eat more crops, researchers reported Thursday. That’s because as ...

Scientists have already warned that climate change likely will impact the food we grow. From rising global temperatures to more frequent "extreme" weather events like droughts and floods, climate ...

Groundwater replenishing beneath temperate farmland fields may come from very recent rainfall, merely one to two weeks old, whereas the water actually taken up by crops is drawn from much older ...

Sugar beets and spinach are the best vegetables to grow if you live in a temperate, midsize city during a nuclear winter, a new study suggests, while wheat and carrots are recommended for industrial ...

Pests are expected to eat and breed more, scientists say Rising global temperatures are leading to a boom in the number of insects devouring crops worldwide, and could cause future food shortages, ...

A recent study shows that less than one-third of the world's population could currently meet their demand for food produced in their local vicinity. Globalisation has revolutionised food production ...