How More Carbon Dioxide Can Make Food Less Nutritious - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/climate/rice-global-warming.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
In recent years, though, researchers have begun to realize that the extra carbon dioxide that humanity is pumping into the atmosphere isn’t just warming the planet, it’s also making some of our most important crops less nutritious by changing their chemical makeup and diluting vitamins and minerals.
Now, a new study has found that rice exposed to elevated levels of carbon dioxide contains lower amounts of several important nutrients.
The potential health consequences are large, given that there are already billions of people around the world who don’t get enough protein, vitamins or other nutrients in their daily diet.
►http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/5/eaaq1012
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