Happy new year everyone! As our global family kicks off a brand new year, let's take a moment to get a snapshot of our big family.
While some of us were out burning off those Thanksgiving calories on Black Friday, a team of more than 300 federal and non-federal science experts released a volunteer-coordinated, government-mandated assessment of the impacts of climate change on the United States.
Elections are opportunities we citizens have to voice our opinion on topics. Our changing climate has impacts on agriculture, real estate, city planning, human health, and beyond.
As our population grows, we will need more and more places for us humans to do our human things. This means, as we grow, we tend to convert natural spaces into developed areas. An urban environment is quite different from a natural landscape and thus has its own variables and concerns.
Humans have transplanted crops all over the globe and have ushered in the era of modern agriculture, but what happens when the environment for specific crops changes?