Sunny southern Florida seems like a perfect place to grow fruits and vegetables, even in the winter. But the 20th-century transformation of what had been wetlands into croplands might have had unintended consequences. The shift has made the area more susceptible to crop-damaging freezes, researchers suspect.
FROZEN ORANGES. The lowest temperatures in parts of south Florida are now a few degrees colder than they would have been before 1900.
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