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Link to Article | Jul 29, 2014
CBS NEWS || As our need for food rises, our ability to produce that food may be lowered by climate and air quality changes, according a to a study just published in Nature Climate Change.
Eliene Augenbraun
CBS News
The world will need 50 percent more food by 2050 due to both an increasing population and a shift toward a more Westernized diet in developing countries. But as our need for food rises, our ability to produce that food may be lowered by...
News Release
Jul 28, 2014
MIT study finds that sectoral regulations will not cut emissions enough to substantially limit climate change, but are a good first step toward phasing in a price on carbon.
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IBT | Jul 28, 2014
Climate change could pose an even greater threat to global food production than previously thought, according to new research. Rising temperatures will not only damage heat-sensitive crops – they’ll also increase toxic air pollution, which will harm crops even further.
Maria Gallucci
International Business Times
Climate change could pose an even greater threat to global food production than previously thought, according to new research. Rising...
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Link to Article | Jul 28, 2014
Thomson Reuters || Controlling air pollution could help curb projected declines in global food supplies, a new study says, suggesting policymakers should consider both climate change and ozone pollution in efforts to ensure the world has enough food.
Megan Rowling
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Controlling air pollution could help curb projected declines in global food supplies, a new study says, suggesting policymakers should consider both climate change and ozone pollution in efforts to ensure the world has enough food.
Scientists have largely...
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Link to Article | Jul 27, 2014
Ozone and higher temperatures can combine to reduce crop yields, but effects will vary by region.
By David L. Chandler
Many studies have shown the potential for global climate change to cut food supplies. But these studies have, for the most part, ignored the interactions between increasing temperature and air pollution — specifically ozone pollution, which is known to damage crops....
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Huffington Post | Jul 27, 2014
Huffington Post || Ozone pollution, which worsens breathing problems and causes air quality warnings, may compound global warming's damage to the world's food crops, according to a new study.
Katherine Boehrer
Huffington Post
Ozone pollution, which worsens breathing problems and causes air quality warnings, may compound global warming's damage to the world's food crops, according to a new study....
Jun 24, 2014
Human life has been so remarkably successful that its sustainability has become the major challenge of our age. Meeting energy needs in a sustainable fashion will require not only bringing together investors, corporations, scientists, and policy makers but new ways of thinking. Can economics be...
Jun 24, 2014
Kerry Emanuel at MIT EAPS Tech Day 2014. Assessing the current understanding of the major climate processes and proposing new directions for climate research.
News Release
Jun 17, 2014
Report finds China’s CO2 emissions could decrease in the coming decades if the country accelerates its energy and climate policies.
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Link to Article | Jun 11, 2014
New research examines regulations to cut carbon emissions and finds benefits to cap and trade system.
Evan Lehman
E&E reporter
It turns out that cap and trade might not be so bad after all.
New research shows that reducing carbon emissions through regulations like the administration's recent rules on power plants cuts less carbon at a higher price than the embattled climate policy Congress...