Apple Pie & Climate Change?

As the climate changes, apple growing will, too

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/08/01/634135514/a-few-more-bad-apples-as-the-climate-changes-fruit-growing-does-too

Nepal’s changing “apple map”

https://kathmandupost.com/climate-environment/2019/08/03/how-climate-change-is-altering-apple-farming-across-mustang

Burnt apples in Australia

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/27/a-record-hot-summer-burned-the-first-fruit-of-my-apple-tree-and-left-a-bad-taste-in-my-mouth

Wild apples might contain genes that could help domesticated apples survive disease and wild weather

https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2016/07/climate-adaptation-key-wild-apples/

The last wild apple forests

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-last-wild-apple-forests-almaty-kazakhstan

Apples are big business

https://www.freshplaza.com/article/2184343/overview-global-apple-market/

Apples are a great example of a commodity

https://www.producemarketguide.com/produce/apples

How the apple became The Forbidden Fruit

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/30/526069512/paradise-lost-how-the-apple-became-the-forbidden-fruit

Do apples really keep the doctor away?

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/food-features/apples/

A plant's-eye view of the world --The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan -book and PBS Series

 http://www.pbs.org/thebotanyofdesire/

A fruit you can polish??

http://usapple.org/faq/vel-facilis-occaecati-omnis/

Apple farmers in the United States feel tariff bite

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201805/02/WS5ae912d0a3105cdcf651b7af.html

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