Global warming may have 'devastating' effects on rice: study
23 MAY 2018
As carbon dioxide rises due to the burning of fossil fuels, rice will lose some of its protein and vitamin content, putting millions of people at risk of malnutrition, scientists warned on Wednesday.
The change could be particularly dire in southeast Asia where rice is a major part of the daily diet, said the report in the journal Science Advances.
"We are showing that global warming, climate change and particularly greenhouse gases -- carbon dioxide -- can have an impact on the nutrient content of plants we eat," said co-author Adam Drewnowski, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington.
"This can have devastating effects on the rice-consuming countries where about 70 percent of the calories and most of the nutrients come from rice."
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