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Episode: As world warms, brewer Carlsberg breeds more climate tolerant crops
Description: As climate change warms our world, it has affected farmers and their growing practices, even threatening beloved beverages, like beer.
Danish brewer Carlsberg, the world’s fourth largest, is breeding more climate-tolerant crops, hoping to future-proof its beer production.
Human-caused climate change has made the world hotter and increased the likelihood of both long droughts and intense bursts of rainfall, affecting farmers and their growing practices.
“It’s impacting a lot,” says the laboratory’s vice president, Birgitte Skadhauge. “Some areas, it’s a lot of drought, it can be heat, extreme heat, but it can also be far too much rain that...