The world’s driest desert is flooding and some of the planet’s wettest woodlands are burning. Welcome to summer in Chile.

A sharp improvement for rainfall conditions for most of the Summer Rainfall Areas for weeks to come. It also will lower the frost risk but increase the risk for insufficient growth related temperatures to complete development cycle of late planted summer crops.

As the science weighs more heavily toward a consensus that a) climate change is a real phenomenon and b) human-generated carbon emissions are playing at least a part in causing more volatile weather patterns, it is critical that the global agricultural community combat this phenomenon, to the extent that it can.

Last year was the fourth warmest on record, extending a scorching streak driven by a build-up of man-made greenhouse gases, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said.

The World Bank Group today announced a major new set of climate targets for 2021-2025, doubling its current 5-year investments to around $200 billion in support for countries to take ambitious climate action.

Some northeastern areas received its first significant rainfall last week, the conditions that caused the rain is however leaving the country and there is a sharp decline in rainfall potential across the country.