Today's Children May Live in a World Where the US Can only Produce Half as Much of Key Food Crops

Today's children may live in a world where the US can only produce half as much of key food crops

“Places in the Midwest that are really well suited for present-day corn and soybean production just get hammered under a high warming future,” said one author.

Climate crisis could wipe out half of U.S. crops by 2100, scientists warn

A major new study published in Nature examines how rising temperatures will impact global food systems, and the results offer a dire warning for wealthy countries.  As the planet warms, the environments that grow the most-consumed crops around the globe are changing—but there’s been a lot of disagreement about what those changes will look like. Counter to some more optimistic previous findings, the new study finds that every degree Celsius that …

Children born now may live in a world where the US can only produce half as much of its key food crops

Rising global temperatures are set to devastate food crops across the world, with particularly alarming impacts projected for the United States, where production of key crops could plummet 50% by the end of the century, according to a sweeping new analysis.