Climate and High-Latitude Herbivores

———————- “…  the plants on which they depend already have reached their peak productivity and have begun to decline in nutritional value….” “… leading to fewer births and to more deaths among caribou calves.” “”Variation in the landscape provides an insurance policy for animals, like caribou, that count on being… Continue reading

UK Climate Change: Agriculture/Wine-making

Imperial College London Public release date: 25-May-2008 Contact: Danielle Reeves danielle.reeves@imperial.ac.uk 44-020-759-42198 —————————————————————— ” … Selley predicts that … cool and intermediate … varieties will be confined to the far north of England … with ‘warm’ and ‘hot’ varieties seen throughout the midlands and south of England.” ———————————————- Research suggests… Continue reading

Climate and Food Production: Insects vs. Livestock

http://sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/32443/title/Insects_%28the_original_white_meat%29> “For crickets fed diets comparable in quality to the feed given to conventional Western livestock, diet conversion efficiency is about twice as high as for broiler chicks and pigs, four times higher than sheep and nearly six times higher than steers, DeFoliart reports. Insects’ quick reproduction and high fecundity… Continue reading