Forced to start picking grapes much earlier than normal because of torrid temperatures, winemakers across France are worrying that grape quality will suffer from the climate-induced stress.. Now he worries that global warming will make such premature harvests "normal."
Off the rocky coast of southeastern Italy, two scuba divers from the financial crimes police bob in and out of the blue waters, under the curious gaze of vacationers.. More commonly, perpetrators -- usually a diver, helper and lookout -- operate at dusk or just before dawn.
Mohamed gave up farming because of successive droughts that have hit his previously fertile but isolated village in Morocco and because he just couldn't bear it any longer.. But it is not just his village that is suffering -- all of the North African country has been hit.
The thick layer of ice that has covered a Swiss mountain pass for centuries will have melted away completely within a few weeks, a ski resort said Thursday.. "The pass will be entirely in the open air in a few weeks," the Glacier 3000 ski resort said in a statement.
More than two decades of devastating drought worsened by man-made climate change mean California must harvest, recycle and desalinate much more water, the state's governor said Thursday.. "Regardless of drought or flood, in this changed climate there will be less water available for people to use," the state's 16-page plan says.
Pulling up some of the sugar beet that should be about handball-size by now, Andrew Blenkiron says the parched conditions have left the root veggies stunted and dried-up.. But there is not enough water for its sugar beet crop, which has been left to fend for itself.
The thick layer of ice that has covered a Swiss mountain pass for centuries will have melted away completely within a few weeks, a ski resort said Thursday.. "The pass will be entirely in the open air in a few weeks," the Glacier 3000 ski resort said in a statement.
Six EU nations are sending firefighting teams and equipment to France as it battles a spate of wildfires, including a fierce blaze in the parched southwest that has forced thousands to evacuate, officials said Thursday.. The European Commission said four firefighting planes would be sent to France from Greece and Sweden, while teams from Austria, Germany, Poland and Romania were on their way.
Footprints laid down by Ice-Age hunter-gatherers and recently discovered in a US desert are shedding new light on North America's earliest human inhabitants.. "Once I... realized I was digging a human footprint, I was seeing toes, I was seeing the thing in immaculate condition...
The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet over the last 40 years, according to research published Thursday that suggests climate models are underestimating the rate of polar heating.. They found that on average the data showed the Arctic had warmed 0.75C per decade, nearly four times quicker than the rest of the planet.
