{"id":15422,"date":"2018-08-30T21:27:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T01:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=15422"},"modified":"2018-08-30T21:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T01:27:38","slug":"agriculture-and-climate-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/08\/agriculture-and-climate-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture and climate around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time of year there is no shortage of stories about agriculture and climate in the media. Many of them are geared to one place, and of course I tend to look at the ones in the US first. But there are a lot coming from other countries as well.\u00a0 Here are a few that caught my eye in the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Quartz India<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/india\/1370201\/coffee-farmers-in-kerala-and-coorg-fear-the-worst-post-floods\/\">Floods have wiped out acres of Indian coffee plantations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Reuters<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20180822124532-lk32j\/\">Crop damage mounts for EU farmers after torrid summer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Guardian<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/aug\/27\/uk-summer-wind-drought-puts-green-revolution-into-reverse?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco\">UK summer wind &#8216;drought&#8217; puts green revolution into reverse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Physics Today<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-nasa-amazon-drought-legacy.html\">NASA finds long legacy of drought leaves long legacy of damage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Pacific Standard<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/environment\/the-continued-decline-of-the-great-barrier-reef\">Measuring the continued destruction of coral in the Great Barrier Reef<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15459\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/nasa-brazil-drought.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15459\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/nasa-brazil-drought-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/nasa-brazil-drought-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/nasa-brazil-drought-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/nasa-brazil-drought-230x138.jpg 230w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/08\/nasa-brazil-drought.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image, taken during a September 2010 drought, shows a line of dead and damaged trees after a surface fire in the Amazon rainforest in western Brazil. When dryer-than-normal conditions exist, fires from the open edges encroach on the forests and burn dry and stressed trees. Under normal conditions, when the rainforests are wetter, this is far less common. Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time of year there is no shortage of stories about agriculture and climate in the media. Many of them are geared to one place, and of course I tend to look at the ones in the US first. But there are a lot coming from other countries as well.\u00a0 Here are a few that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":15459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-coastal","category-crops","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15460,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions\/15460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}