“Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth” is the title of a new report released this month in the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. It is based on a study by a team of MIT, Harvard and Northwestern University researchers. Collecting temperature and economic output

The rising cost of fuel and energy impacts agriculture many ways. North American farms use lots of fossil fuel resources to produce incredible yields per acre of land. The same is true of farms in many other industrialized nations. In the developing world energy access is an inhibitor