UN climate report: Change land use to avoid a hungry future
Story Date: 8/8/2019

 

Source: Seth Borenstein and Jamey Keaten, WRAL, 8/7/19

 Human-caused climate change is dramatically degrading the Earth's land and the way people use the land is making global warming worse, a new United Nations scientific report says. That creates a vicious cycle which is already making food more expensive, scarcer and less nutritious. "The cycle is accelerating," said NASA climate scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig, a co-author of the report. "The threat of climate change affecting people's food on their dinner table is increasing."

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