{"id":29141,"date":"2024-12-25T17:41:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T17:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/researchers-race-to-climate-proof-christmas-tree-production-were-up-to-the-task\/"},"modified":"2024-12-25T17:41:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T17:41:08","slug":"researchers-race-to-climate-proof-christmas-tree-production-were-up-to-the-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/researchers-race-to-climate-proof-christmas-tree-production-were-up-to-the-task\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers race to climate-proof Christmas tree production: \u2018We\u2019re up to the task\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists search for a variety to withstand the climate crisis as high temperatures and drought can stress trees<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-crisis\">climate crisis<\/a> is increasingly affecting agriculture in the United States, including the production of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/christmas\">Christmas<\/a> trees.<\/p>\n<p>Like all crops, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/thefilter\/2024\/nov\/28\/best-christmas-tree-guide\">Christmas trees<\/a> are vulnerable to a changing climate, as the United States continues to experience warmer <a href=\"https:\/\/nca2023.globalchange.gov\/#overview-section-2\">temperatures<\/a>, more frequent and severe heat, increased rainfall, droughts, wildfires and hurricanes, as a result of global warming and the climate crisis \u2013\u00a0primarily driven by humans\u2019 burning of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/fossil-fuels\">fossil fuels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/25\/christmas-trees-climate-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists search for a variety to withstand the climate crisis as high temperatures and drought can stress trees The climate crisis is increasingly affecting agriculture in the United States, including the production of Christmas trees. Like all crops, Christmas trees are vulnerable to a changing climate, as the United States continues to experience warmer temperatures, &#8230; <a title=\"Researchers race to climate-proof Christmas tree production: \u2018We\u2019re up to the task\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/25\/researchers-race-to-climate-proof-christmas-tree-production-were-up-to-the-task\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Researchers race to climate-proof Christmas tree production: \u2018We\u2019re up to the task\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}