Category: 🌾 Food, Water & Resource Security
Climate Signals (58) Δ27 Variable 2 – Global mean surface temperature anomaly (2) Δ27 Variable 3 – Atmospheric CO₂e concentration (CO₂ + CH₄ + N₂O) (6) Δ27 Variable 5 – Marine heatwaves (14) Δ27 Variable 6-Marine biomass & deoxygenation (3) Δ27 Variable 7 – Greenland Ice Sheet stability (3) Δ27 Variable 8_West Antarctic Ice Sheet stability (4) Δ27 Variable 9-Arctic sea ice extent/thickness (6) Δ27 Variable 10 – Permafrost thaw & carbon emissions (1) Δ27 Variable 12 – Boreal biome shift (net) (1) Δ27 Variable 13 – Freshwater stress & groundwater depletion (2) Δ27 Variable 14-AMOC strength (3) Δ27 Variable 15-Monsoon systems stability (3) Δ27 Variable 16-Wildfire burned area / fire weather index (2) Δ27 Variable 17 – Global staple crop yields & stocks-to-use (3) Δ27 Variable 20 – Energy system reliability & EROEI / grid stability (2) Δ27 Variable 22 Insurance retreat & financial climate risk (1) Δ27 Variable 23 – Extreme-heat exposure (wet-bulb population-days) (3) Δ27 Variable 24 – Public-health capacity incl. AMR & pandemic emergence (1) Δ27 Variable 25 – Mass displacement (forced migration volume) (1) Δ27 Variable 27 – Epistemic resilience (mis/disinformation & media capture) (4) ⚙️ Energy, Infrastructure & Material Flow (3) 🌊 Oceanic Equilibrium & Acidification (17) 🌍 Atmospheric Forcing & Planetary Energy Balance (8) 🌪 Atmospheric Circulation & Regional Climate Stability (8) 🌱 Carbon & Hydrological Feedback Loops (3) 🌾 Food, Water & Resource Security (4) 🧊 Cryosphere Integrity & Sea-Level Commitment (8) 🧠 Knowledge Integrity & Governance Resilience (4) 🧬 Human Stability & Adaptive Capacity (5)
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Matcha is under threat from climate change – can genomics save it?
Climate change is affecting the yields and flavour of the traditional Japanese tea matcha, but studying its seedlings’ genetic tolerance for heat could future-proof…
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Global warming already causing crop losses of over $20 billion a year
Climate change is already having a big impact on crop yields, and the subsequent financial losses will continue to rise as the world keeps…
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Sensing soil moisture for better crops
Sea Ice Today services reduced Beginning October 15, 2025, NSIDC’s Sea Ice Today services will be reduced because of non-renewed funding. This means no new monthly…
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Repurposing data from NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite
Sea Ice Today services reduced Beginning October 15, 2025, NSIDC’s Sea Ice Today services will be reduced because of non-renewed funding. This means no new monthly…