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As Massachusetts swelters in a wave of oppressive heat, researchers published new findings showing that with even moderate increases in the average global temperature, hundreds of millions of people around the world could be regularly exposed to heat that exceeds the limit of humans’ ability to survive.
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Approximately three quarters of all produce consumed in Canada is imported, and California supplies a major chunk of that. So Canadians feel it when California is hammered by drought, flooding and other weather extremes.
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Approximately three quarters of all produce consumed in Canada is imported, and California supplies a major chunk of that. So Canadians feel it when California is hammered by drought, flooding and other weather extremes.
Plants absorb one-third of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions, but if temperatures keep rising in the next 20 years, plants could become 50 percent less