Temperature rise due to climate change has negatively affected labor productivity in recent decades and will keep damaging it, potentially to a higher extent than what has been estimated in the literature up to now.

Summary Wet weather remains in place over summer grain-production areas Widespread rain continued over much of the central to northeastern parts of the country during the last few days, with persistent wet conditions leading to increasing levels of rivers ad dams in many areas.

Sponsored by Santam Agriculture -Johan van den Berg -Independent Agricultural Meteorologist (M.Sc Agric, Agricultural meteorology, UFS)

The year 2020 was one of the three warmest on record, and rivalled 2016 for the top spot, according to a consolidation of five leading international datasets by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). A naturally occurring cooling climate phenomenon, La Niña, put a brake on the heat only at the very end of the year.

 As temperatures rise and climate change impacts intensify, nations must urgently step up action to adapt to the new climate reality or face serious costs, damages and losses, a new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report finds.

Climate change impacts the health of every person, animal, plant, a body of water and soil type.