The USDA instructions also come as California recovers from wildfires that could amount to the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history, which scientists said climate change exacerbated.

Climate change could have dire consequences for agriculture. According to the EPA , as temperatures rise, both the productivity and nutritional value of crops may decrease.

New research spotlights the challenge of growing food on a warming planet. Two recent studies — one historical and the other forward-looking — examine how rising temperatures have made and could ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has directed agency officials to review and remove content related to climate change from its public websites, according to internal emails obtained by ABC News ...

February 3, 2025 – According to emails obtained by Politico, officials at the USDA have ordered employees to create a spreadsheet documenting all references to climate change on the agency’s website ...

Farmers win legal fight to bring climate resources back to federal websites. The USDA says it will return information about climate change to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down.

And in February 2022 the US Department of Agriculture announced $3.1 billion in funding through a scheme called Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities (PCSC).

Roughly half of the grid cells shifted a half zone warmer, and the remaining grid cells didn’t change zone. Despite a reluctance on the part of the USDA to pin the changes in the map on climate change ...

In a case study of Yolo County agriculture, warmer winter temperatures would reduce chill hours, potentially reducing yields for some crops while extending the growing season for others, according to ...

Across the country, farmers are adapting to a warming climate. But even with change after change, yields are going up, thanks to technological advances. How long can the trend continue?

Agriculture Department employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites and document climate change references for further review, according to ...