The food we eat is driving global warming, according to a new UN report
from 107 leading scientists warned that climate change threatened the world’s food supply, and tackling the problem would require big changes to eating habits and farming methods.
Earth’s landmasses, which make up 30% of the globe, are heating up twice as fast as the planet overall. While carbon dioxide, a major heat-trapping gas, is helping to make plants grow and become greener, scientists found that it also reduces nutritional value in some crops including wheat. Experiments show wheat suffered a 6%-13% drop in protein in high CO2 environments.
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