Climate change is coming for your pizza sauce

Heat, drought, disease—climate-forced changes are pushing California tomato production into a tough spot. But our future pizzas are not yet lost.

Climate change is intensifying the challenges farmers face, making it harder to grow beloved foods like tomato plants, which don't bear fruit if it gets too hot too early in their development.
Photograph by ac bnphotos, Getty Images

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