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The last remaining tropical glaciers between the Himalayas and the Andes will disappear in the next decade – and possibly sooner – due to climate change, a new study has found. The glaciers in Papua, Indonesia, are “the canaries in the coal mine” for other mountaintop glaciers around the world, one of the senior authors of the paper said.

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Keywords: Climate Change, Glacier, glacier melt, Papua New Guinea, Ice Core, ice core samples

New research from the University of Adelaide has shown that climate and economic factors are the main drivers of farmers leaving their properties in the Murray-Darling Basin, not reduced water for irrigation as commonly claimed.

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Keywords: rural decline, Farming, Agriculture, Irrigation, Water, water economics, Drought, Climate Change

Study investigates effects of irrigation management on yield and profit

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Keywords: Water, Agriculture, Soil Science, Crop Science, Agronomy, Sustainability, Irrigation, Technology, Yield, Profitability, Conservation, Management, Drought, Food Security

Extreme drought’s impact on plants will become more dominant under future climate change, as noted in a paper out today in the journal Nature Climate Change. Analysis shows that not only will droughts become more frequent under future climates, but more of those events will be extreme, adding to the reduction of plant production essential to human and animal populations.

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Keywords: Climate Change, Droughts, Carbon Dioxide, global carbon cycle, vegetaion, vegetation production

Enough physical evidence spanning millennia has now come together to allow researchers to say definitively that: El Ninos, La Ninas, and the climate phenomenon that drives them have become more extreme in the times of human-induced climate change.

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Keywords: El Nino, El Nino Events, El Nino Southern Oscillation, La Nina, Climate Change, climate and environmental sciences, Coral, Coral Bleaching, Fossil Record, oxygen 18, isotope harvesting, isotope tracking, Pacific Ocean, Tropical Pacific, Equatorial

Scientists identify more efficient methods for evaluating heat tolerance

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Keywords: quinoa, heat, Crop Science, Agriculture, Production, Sustainability, Food Production, Secure Food, Drought, Genetics, Breeding, Plant Science

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Wheat is the world’s largest rain-fed crop in terms of harvested area and supplies about 20% of all calories consumed by humans. A new study has found that unless steps are taken to mitigate climate change, up to 60% of current wheat-growing areas worldwide could see simultaneous, severe and prolonged droughts by the end of the century.

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Keywords: Drought, wheat and climate change, Food Security, water shortages, Climate Change, cereal grains, Agricultural and Environmental economics, Agriculture, agriculture and climate change

Research shows adding sesame to cotton-sorghum crop rotations is possible in west Texas

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Keywords: Sesame, Cotton, Sorghum, Texas, Agriculture, Crops, Science, Research, Conservation, Environment, Water, Resources, Sustainable, Food

A new Columbia Engineering study indicates that the world will experience more frequent and more extreme drought and aridity than currently experienced in the coming century, exacerbated by both climate change and land-atmosphere processes.

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Keywords: Climate Change, Atmospheric, Drought, Feedback