Saturday, 04 September 2010




A rice field after harvest in Guilin, China.Photo courtesy yewenyi via FlickrPARIS -- Climate change could reduce key harvests in China by a fifth if the gloomiest scenarios prove true, according to a study on Wednesday. Publishing in the journal Nature, a team of Chinese scientists say China's climate "has clearly warmed" over the past half century, gaining 2.2 degrees F since 1960. The hotspots were northeastern China, with a warming trend of 0.65 degrees F per decade, and Inner Mongolia, with...
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