Humanity faces increasingly painful trade-offs between food security and rising temperatures within decades unless it curbs emissions and stops unsustainable farming and deforestation, a landmark climate assessment said Thursday.
Climate change is about to hit the world in the stomach, according to the United Nations. A new scientific report from the world body that examines land degradation concludes that climate change will imperil crops and worsen hunger.
A new UN report on warming and land use says climate change is hitting us where it counts: in the stomach. Scientists say this vicious cycle is making food costlier, scarcer and even less nutritious.
