CO2 Can Reduce Food Value

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Date of Publication: August 22, 2014

Year of Publication: 2014

Publication City: Boston, MA

Publisher: World Media Foundation, Living on Earth

Author(s): Steve Curwood

“A study in the journal Nature finds that key agricultural crops grown in a high carbon dioxide environment are less nutritious. Lead author Sam Myers tells host Steve Curwood that atmospheric CO2 levels are expected to reach 550 parts per million by mid-century, which will badly impact human nutrition.”

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