Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril – in maps and charts The destruction of food supplies by crop pests is being supercharged by the climate crisis, with losses expected to surge, an analysis has concluded. Researchers said the world was lucky to have so far avoided a major shock and was living on borrowed time, with action needed to diversify crops and boost natural predators of pests. Continue reading...