Climate change: new danger from cadmium in our food!

Climate change: new danger from cadmium in our food!

alarming study from Tübingen: climate change brings dangerous food!

A shocking investigation by scientists from the University of Tübingen and the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) has shown that climate change is seriously threatened! The reason? The carcinogenic cadmium is increasingly mobilized by rising temperatures. The researchers have analyzed agricultural areas under the extreme climate conditions of the year 2100 and adopted a temperature increase of two to four degrees Celsius.

cadmium: an invisible enemy!

Cadmium, a naturally occurring element in soils, is usually bound and harmless. However, under the forecast climate conditions, especially in slightly acidic soils - about a third of all soils - the mobility of cadmium could increase by terrifying 40 percent! This means higher concentrations of the toxic metal in the pore water of the soils, which endangers not only the environment, but also our health.

Marie Muehe from the UFZ and the University of Tübingen warns: "Ecosystems could massively disturb increased amounts of mobile cadmium." The metal could get into our food and thus a serious health risk for us humans. The scientists therefore call for urgent measures and continuous observation of these alarming developments. The results of this explosive study were published in the renowned trade magazine "Nature Communications Earth and Environment" and should all make us look!