How the 2026 wildfire season is burning into the food supply on two continents — scorching rangeland in the American West, tainting wine-country harvests, and reducing Mediterranean olive groves and l
A fine, balanced assessment and great illustration of how many of the impacts of global heating/climate change are indirect, brutal, unrelenting and increasingly widespread.
The fires and heat we're experiencing will continue to increase even if we halt burning FFs tomorrow. CO2 stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. I wonder when the insurance side of this crisis hits farms? Rates will become unaffordable or insurers will pull out entirely and the USDA cannot build back indefinitely. At the same time working conditions are becoming impossible for field workers, and Trump is locking them up. Agricultural and economic collapse will happen together. Never mind the fertilizer crisis of the Iran debacle.
Solid article. I appreciate the hard work to produce it. The writing pales to the research and accumulated knowledge required. So few see our immediate peril.
A fine, balanced assessment and great illustration of how many of the impacts of global heating/climate change are indirect, brutal, unrelenting and increasingly widespread.
The fires and heat we're experiencing will continue to increase even if we halt burning FFs tomorrow. CO2 stays in the atmosphere for hundreds of years. I wonder when the insurance side of this crisis hits farms? Rates will become unaffordable or insurers will pull out entirely and the USDA cannot build back indefinitely. At the same time working conditions are becoming impossible for field workers, and Trump is locking them up. Agricultural and economic collapse will happen together. Never mind the fertilizer crisis of the Iran debacle.
You are so right on all accounts.
Solid article. I appreciate the hard work to produce it. The writing pales to the research and accumulated knowledge required. So few see our immediate peril.
Great report!