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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
As the world heats up and the climate shifts, life will migrate, adapt or go extinct. For decades, scientists have deployed a specific method to predict how a species will fare during this time of great change.
Wild North American grapes are now less of a mystery after an international team of researchers led by the University of California, Davis, decoded and catalogued the genetic diversity of nine species of this valuable wine crop.
Even in the precipitation-heavy Pacific Northwest, more frequent heatwaves are threatening a key source of water supply.
Researchers report in the journal Geohealth that local rivers and streams were the source of the Salmonella enterica contamination along coastal North Carolina after Hurricane Florence in 2018 – not the previously suspected high number of pig farms in the region.
In devastating cases dotting the globe in recent years, climate warming has led to an increase in the number and severity of destructive wildfires.
Missouri is home to 95,000 farms — the second highest number of farms per state in the country.
