Study: Climate impacts set to make over half of banana growing regions unviable

Stuart Stone
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Sixty per cent of banana-growing regions will struggle to grow the fruit without urgent action to tackle climate change, study warns

Around 60 per cent of regions currently producing bananas will struggle to grow the fruit by 2080, unless urgent action is taken to tackle escalating climate impacts. That is the bleak conclusion of...

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