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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
If current environmental trends continue through the end of the century, the world could see corn production decline by 40 percent but wheat yields gain 30-40 percent, according to a top NASA scientist.
NASA scientist Cynthia Rosenzweig, a renowned climatologist and an agronomist who founded a global project for modeling the impact of climate change on the food supply, was announced Thursday as the 2022 World Food Prize laureate.
Farmers and water managers across the West are bracing for another potentially dry year, even as they wait for rain and snow that could help alleviate drought conditions. But with climate change reducing annual snowpack and the water it promises, the Bureau of Reclamation is in search of new and more accurate forecast tools.
It may be many months before the full personal, economic and environmental damages of California’s massive wildfires are known, but researchers are working to assess the damages.
The Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has joined NASA iTech in launching a competition to identify transformational energy technologies.