Global heating may lead to wine shortage

Rise of 2C would cause 56% loss of vineyard land, while 4C would wipe out 85%

From wildfires to rising tides, the climate crisis is already bringing many threats. Now scientists say it may also bring a shortage of many popular wines.

Researchers looked at the land suitable for 11 popular varieties of wine grape and found that 2C (3.6F) of warming above pre-industrial levels - a rise the world is on track to exceed - would result in a 56% loss of suitable land within current wine-growing regions compared with the 1970s, before the most serious impacts of global heating.