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Study Finds Climate Crisis May Threaten 60% of World’s Wheat Crop by 2100

HeadlineSep 27, 2019

A new report finds global wheat harvests are increasingly under threat as the climate crisis accelerates. The report in the peer-reviewed journal Science Advances finds that, without radical action to mitigate climate change, extreme droughts will threaten 60% of the world’s current wheat-producing regions by the end of the century.

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