Coffee farmers in Colombia are counting the cost of several consecutive seasons of unfavourable weather, which has affected crops across the country. As well as rains falling during flowering causing a drop in coffee yields, the increasing problems of coffee rust and infestations of the coffee pod borer have also ruined crops. Click to read Colombian coffee growers faceRead More …
Colombian coffee takes a hit
20 January, 2011 by (comments)Filed Under: Latin America and the Caribbean, Multimedia @en, Regions
WMO – 2010 was the warmest year on record
20 January, 2011 by (comments)The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has concluded that 2010 was the warmest year on record since global temperature records began in 1850. It found that 2010 was 0.53 degrees Celsius warmer than the average for the commonly-used baseline period of 1961-1990. While 2010 was marginally warmer that the other two warmest years on record – 1998 and 2005 –Read More …
Filed Under: Climate Change
