In November 1951 the Polesine, a flatland enclosed by the rivers Po and Adige in northeastern Italy, was hit by massive flooding. Hundreds of hectares were submerged and tens of thousands of people left homeless. The effects of a particularly heavy wet season were compounded by insufficient flood defenses.

Climate change impacts both the goals of corn breeders, and their current everyday research.

Droughts, high prices, and scarcity of food affected New Granada in the first decade of nineteenth century.

This article focuses on the complicated interactions between climate change and the lives of people in and near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.