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Says without policies and interventions to conserve groundwater, warming temperatures will challenge India’s food and water security

In a study published today in Science Advances led by University of Oklahoma assistant professor Nishan Bhattarai, researchers found that under a business-as-usual scenario of groundwater use for irrigation in India, climate warming may triple the groundwater depletion rates. Approximately 60% of India’s irrigated agriculture depends on the threatened groundwater. The results of the study indicate that adaptation to an increasingly warm climate threatens the security of India’s future food and water.

Following alarming report that world will be 1.5°C in next 5 years, director of meteorological service says that in Israel the average temperature already has increased by 1.7°C since the 1970s

The tale of Israel’s agricultural miracle is one of a rose growing through concrete. It is a scintillating narrative of a barren desert that was transformed into a most fruitful farm land. Fifty...

The study, led by a Tel Aviv University researcher, is the first of its kind to empirically correlate climate change and human behavior