Das Ergebnis: In nur sechs Jahrzehnten wurde fast ein Drittel der globalen Landfläche auf irgendeine Weise verändert. Der Wert war damit nach Angaben aus Karlsruhe etwa vier Mal so hoch, wie langfristige Analysen bis dahin angenommen hatten

Despite important agricultural advancements to feed the world in the last 60 years, a Cornell-led study shows that global farming productivity is 21% lower than it could have been without climate change. This is the equivalent of losing about seven years of farm productivity increases since the 1960s.

Since then, larger thinkers on the Quebec scene have argued whether this was the beginning of Quebec's Quiet Revolution — officially pegged for 1960 with the election of Jean Lesage as Premier — or perhaps just the end of a time when hockey was more important than politics, as the latter began to take hold among French Canadian youth.

Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark: