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Wine and warming: Climate change’s threat to vineyards
© 2007 Flickr/roblisameehan cc by 2.0First coffee, and now wine? According to a recent study by scientists at Stanford, the wine industry could become the latest casualty of climate change, as...
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As the climate warms, can trees move fast enough?
© 2008 Flickr/Jeff Turner cc by 2.0When scientists talk about “migrating trees,” it’s not because they’ve watched The Lord of the Rings too many times. Individual trees may not be able to hop, run or...
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Valentine’s Day chocolate: soon an endangered species?
© CC BY 2.0 Flickr/miguelpdl CC BY 2.0It’s that time of year again, when your single friends become a bit more cynical, greeting card companies rake in millions, flowers are shipped around the country...
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Fewer cows and a shortage of flowers: How climate change impacts the Maasai...
This March, Climate Reality Project Presenters (and mother and daughter team) Hilde Binford and Elna Otter, along with Elna’s partner Jimmy McPherson, went on an expedition to the Dupoto Forest in...
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Early spring not so sweet for sugar maples
© 2009 Flickr/cotinis CC BY-NC-SA 2.0What do bowling pins, pancakes and leaf peepers have in common? The sugar maple – a species so iconic that it’s the official tree of four U.S. states and the...
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Oyster-lovers beware … this delicacy could become a rarity
© 2010 Flickr/Ganesha.isis cc by 2.0As an ardent foodie, I was concerned to see the results of a new study last week. The study warns that oyster production may decline due to rising carbon dioxide...
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Climate change leaves a bad taste for low-income families – or no taste at all
© 2009 Flickr/US Mission Canada cc by 2.0You may have heard that climate change threatens some of life’s delicious perks: coffee, chocolate and maple syrup. But for poor families in the Arctic, climate...
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Dirty weather, food security and the 2012 drought
© 2012 Pablo Tosco/Oxfam International cc by nc nd 2.0 As we pollute our atmosphere and warm our climate, extreme and disruptive weather is becoming a part of our lives. Here’s one big example of this...
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