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High CO2 Makes Crops Less Nutritious

2014-05-07 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Geographic: Crops grown in the high-CO2 atmosphere of the future could be significantly less nutritious, a new study published today in Nature suggests. Based on hundreds of experiments in the field, the work reveals a new challenge as society reckons with both rising carbon emissions and malnutrition in the future. Scientists generally predict that crop yields could fall in a warmer world-though higher atmospheric CO2 by itself should raise yields, as plants find it easier to extract CO2 from the air to...

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