The morning sun shines on lush vines as harvesters pick grapes. The hillside vineyard looks like it could be in Italy but lies near Berlin, where climate change has transformed winemaking.

The 75-year-old owner, Manfred Lindicke, said that rising global temperatures over the decades had helped his grapes sweeten and ripen earlier.

“When I started here in 1996, we used to harvest around October 1,” he said. “Now we start on September 1.”

The climate crisis may be wreaking havoc globally on island nations, deserts and coastal regions, and intensifying disasters from droughts and wildfires to hurricanes and floods.

But in some regions, businesses have benefited from some of its impacts — including on Lindicke’s 7.6-hectare vineyard in Werder, about 35 kilometres (20 miles) southwest of th

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