Portugal Harvests Grapes at Night to Beat the Heat
The nighttime shift helps workers avoid 40C daytime heat and keeps grapes fresher as climate change pushes harvests earlier.
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Portugal harvests grapes at night to beat the heat
"At night, it's much cooler, and with this light we see the bunches of grapes better," Maria Jeronima Mendes, 70, told AFP on a rural estate lined with lush vines. Climate change is intensifying and lengthening spells of extreme heat and drought across Europe, with EU's climate monitor reporting on Thursday that western Europe sweltered through its warmest summer this year, while August was the hottest single month ever recorded globally. The he…
On a wine-growing area in southern Portugal, the harvesters with lit frontal lanterns work all night among the vine lines to avoid the intense heat that persists and in September, transmits AFP, taken over by AGERPRES. "The night is much cooler and, with this light, we can see the grape rings better," says Maria Jeronima Mendes, [...]
On a wine-growing estate in southern Portugal, the harvesters with lit frontal lanterns work all night among the vine rows to avoid the intense heat that persists in September.
'It's just a matter of habit': Portugal harvests grapes at night to beat the heat
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