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

Cadmium: An invisible enemy!

Cadmium, a naturally occurring element in soils, is normally bound and harmless. But under predicted climate conditions, particularly in slightly acidic soils – which make up about a third of all soils – cadmium mobility could increase by a shocking 40 percent! This means higher concentrations of the toxic metal in the pore water of the soil, which not only endangers the environment but also our health.

Marie Muehe from the UFZ and the University of Tübingen warns urgently: “Increased amounts of mobile cadmium could massively disrupt ecosystems.” The metal could get into our food and therefore pose a serious health risk to us humans. Scientists are therefore calling for urgent action and continued monitoring of these alarming developments. The results of this explosive study were published in the renowned journal “Nature Communications Earth and Environment” and should make us all sit up and take notice!