Sentences with phrase «as widespread crop failure»

Dr. Huber «wrote a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack warning of the discovery of a new pathogen and a possible link between Roundup Ready ® (GMO) corn and soybeans and severe reproductive problems in livestock as well as widespread crop failure» in January.

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At the same time, CSIRO is also crafting lower - tech programs for farmers in nearby developing countries, which may face severe food shortages due to crop failures and even widespread famine as the weather heats up, water dries up, and population explodes.
In response to widespread crop failures in the Midwest, the United States Department of Agriculture began promoting purebred puppies as a fool - proof «cash» crop.
If, that is, we want a good chance of avoiding the dismal future that Bill Hare, an accomplished scientist and the godfather of Greenpeace's climate campaign, has so carefully warned us about: Unstable weather, routine heat waves, widespread drought, crop failure, and mass extinction, rising sea levels, and, in general, a markedly more hostile environment and a situation that our society, as presently constituted, is unlikely to navigate with grace and aplomb.
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