How Climate Change Is Messing With Your Blood

How Climate Change Is Messing With Your Blood

—Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: quantic69/Getty Images, Luke Sharrett—Bloomberg/Getty Images)Rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere do a lot of damage—heat waves, droughts, wildfires, superstorms. Now it appears there’s another knock-on effect that had never before been measured. According to a new study in the journal Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health, the changing chemistry of the atmosphere could be lead…

Rising CO2 May Be Quietly Altering Human Blood Chemistry, Study Finds

Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide may already be leaving a measurable imprint inside the human body, according to a study analyzing more than two decades of US health data, which found blood bicarbonate levels have climbed roughly 7% since 1999 in a pattern that closely tracks the rise in atmospheric CO2, while calcium and phosphorus levels […] The post Rising CO2 May Be Quietly Altering Human Blood Chemistry, Study Finds appeared first on LoudF…