Climate change, Brexit threaten to wilt Dutch tulips

Spierdijk, Netherlands (AFP) April 29, 2024

Arjan Smit gazes out over his tulip fields, a riot of red and pink flowers he has cultivated all his adult life and part of a family business his grandfather started in 1940. The 55-year-old has seen many changes over a long career but he says climate change is making an all-consuming profession even harder. "The climate has changed. We can feel that. We have more wet periods. Last year,