Purdue University News Release June 14, 2007 Reduced greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid dangerous increases in heat stress, researchers say http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2007a/070614DiffenbaughHeat.html A study led by a Purdue University researcher projects a 200 percent to 500 percent increase in the number of dangerously hot days in the Mediterranean by the… Continue reading

“There’s a danger in assuming that climate change is only going to be gradual…. forest managers … will really have to think carefully about what they’re planting now.” “France, hit hardest by the heatwave, lost 20% of its usual harvest.” Continue reading

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Randy Babb, a biologist with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, offers the Gambel’s Quail as Exhibit A on the impact of the state’s drought. The birds forage on winter annuals that contain a chemical similar to estrogen. In dry years, when those plants are sparse, quail hens lay fewer… Continue reading