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Rising CO2 Levels Find New Ways To Kill You: Lowering The Amount of Nutrients In Our Food

2014-05-07 12:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Fast Company: If we don't intervene, greenhouse gases may significantly reduce the amount of zinc and iron in crops around the world. Add one more consequence to the ever-growing list of climate-change repercussions: a threat to human nutrition. In a study released today in Nature, researchers reveal that rising CO2 levels are significantly reducing the amount of two critical dietary nutrients--iron and zinc--in crops. Some two billion people already have iron and zinc deficiencies, and now climate change could...

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