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Warming helps crop pests spread north, south: study [1]

Crop-damaging pests are moving towards the poles at a rate of more than 25 km (16 miles) a decade, aided by global warming and human transport, posing a potential threat to world food security, a s

Publication Date: 
02/09/2013
Reuters [2]
Tags:
Crop Pests [3], Agriculture [4], Global Warming [5], Climate Impacts [6], Climate Change [7], Food Security [8]

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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global-warming
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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security