Empty calories and climate change

Climate change could create a new kind of empty calories, by indirectly reducing the nutrition content of food crops, says the Guardian. “Because carbon dioxide alters the nitrogen balance in soil, robbing plants of protein and micronutrients, even once healthy foods won’t be as nutritious,” says the story by Kristina Johnson that draws on the government’s National… » Read More

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