Latest History of the Americas Stories

WASHINGTON -- Climate warming could spell disaster for much of the multibillion-dollar U.S. wine industry. Areas suitable for growing premium wine grapes could be reduced by 50 percent - and possibly as much as 81 percent - by the end of this century, according to a study Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper indicates increasing weather problems for grapes in such areas as California's Napa and Sonoma valleys. The main problem: An increase in the frequency of...

By Alonso Soto CHICAGO (Reuters) - When silver-haired Juan Loza rose to talk about his four years picking cotton in Texas for the U.S. government nearly half a century ago, his voice cracked and his eyes watered. "I'm proud to have been part of the history of this country," Loza, 66, told a graying crowd of former Mexican migrant workers gathered in Chicago this week to tell their stories to the Smithsonian Institution for a history project. They were among the roughly 5 million...