To save Chilean wine, producers head south.
Faced with increasingly inhospitable growing conditions, the Chilean wine industry is moving south and experimenting with new vines.
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‘Fingerprinting’ the ocean to predict devastating sea level rise.
Scientists are “fingerprinting” sea level rise around the world in an effort to identify coastal areas most at risk from devastating storm surge, as...
Climate change means more fuel for toxic algae blooms.
For two days in early August 2014, the 400,000 residents in and around Toledo, Ohio, were told not to drink, wash dishes with or...
ICYMI: Syrian seeds shake up Europe’s plant patent regime.
Salvatore Ceccarelli knew he was engaging in a subversive act when, in 2010, he took two 20 kilo sacks of bread and durum wheat...
Amid wreckage of hurricane-devastated Caribbean, leaders see a climate change opening.
In the ruins of his hurricane-ravaged nation, Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit sees the homes that have to be razed, the hospital and clinics...
Hotline, 'gender champions', tackle violence against girls in drought-hit Kenya.
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Today's Arctic is a 'profoundly different place.'
NASA scientists on a 2010 mission to the Arctic. Photo courtesy of NASA.
The Arctic is experiencing a profound shift into a new state as...
Ancient trees reveal relationship between climate change, wildfires.
Aug. 29 (UPI) -- New analysis of centuries-old trees in South America has revealed a strong correlation between wildfires and periods of warming.
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Is now the time to buy a dam for your house?
Texas paid $1.2 million for a portable version to protect a highway against Harvey. Now homeowners are lining up.
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Has climate change intensified 2017’s Western wildfires?
This wasn’t supposed to be a bad year for Western wildfires.
Last winter, a weak La Niña bloomed across the Pacific. It sent flume after...