Climate Change and Environment

Silvio Almeida’s coffee plantation sits at an ideal altitude on a Brazilian hillside, whose clay-rich soil does well at retaining moisture from rainfall and a nearby reservoir. Lately, though, water is scarce on Almeida’s modest farm in Caconde, a town in one of Sao Paulo state’s key growing regions. He can’t get …

Professor Dr. Sinan Mavruk, Faculty Member of Çukurova University Faculty of Fisheries, unveiled that fish species decreased due to global warming and aquaculture came to the fore in fisheries. Professor Dr. Sinan Mavruk, Faculty Member of Çukurova University Faculty of Fisheries, Department of Marine Biology, stated that global warming and …

Dr Erol Kesici, Scientific Advisor of the Association for the Protection of Nature of Türkiye (TTKD), unveiled that 186 of the 240 lakes in the country have completely dried up in the last 60 years and that the remaining ones are in danger of drought and excessive pollution. Dr. Erol …

‘Climate change is intensifying the impacts of pollution in the Black Sea,’ says World Bank official… The World Bank on Friday approved a grant of 6.39 million dollars for a project to reduce pollution in the Black Sea. A statement by the bank said that the Black Sea became one …

Ege (Aegean) University (EÜ) Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition Lecturer Professor Dr. Yusuf Kurucu stated that due to climate change, salinity in the soil has increased day by day, especially since 2010 and this has negatively affected agriculture. Dr. Kurucu said, “Türkiye needs to switch …

Temperature-related extreme events will only become more intense if action not taken, warns deputy director of Copernicus… The summer of 2024 has set new temperature benchmarks globally, according to data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) released Thursday. Global average temperatures for June to August reached 0.69C above the …

Brazilian Agriculture often undergoes great advances. The Brazilian system of support for science and innovation as well as the willingness of Brazilian farmers to test and accept new technologies are pillars of these advances.  In recent years, regenerative agriculture has been one of these leaps, respecting soil conservation practices and …

The harvest of the fruit, which is grown in some regions of Bursa and is considered to be the world’s highest quality black fig, has started. Due to the weather conditions, the black fig harvest started 20 days earlier than last year and the yield soared by 15 percent as …

August, 2024… Extreme weather events in Brazil and Vietnam are among the main reasons for the increase in coffee prices. So what does the world have in store for coffee prices? Kanica Goel from www.newfoodmagazine.com writes that there has been significant volatility in the global agricultural commodity market in recent …

Dear farmers, seed is the building block of life and the foundation of agriculture. You produce and reproduce for the continuity of all life. It will be possible to boost productivity and quality in our country’s agriculture by cooperating with our farmers who breathe life into the soil with ancestral …