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Climate change is affecting crop yields and reducing global food supplies

  • Written by Deepak Ray, Senior scientist, University of Minnesota
Climate change is affecting crop yields and reducing global food suppliesFarm land near Holly Bluff, Miss., covered with backwater flooding, May 23, 2019. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis

Farmers are used to dealing with weather, but climate change is making it harder by altering temperature and rainfall patterns, as in this year’s unusually cool and wet spring in the central U.S. In a recently published study, I...

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