#Arsenic

Scientists have issued an urgent warning: climate change is turning rice—the staple food of more than half of Thailand’s population and billions more worldwide—into a potential health hazard. According to a major study published in The Lancet Planetary Health, increases in both global temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are triggering dangerous rises in arsenic concentrations within rice grains. This finding carries alarming implications for Thailand and other rice-dependent societies, where daily consumption is central to both culture and sustenance (Ars Technica; The Lancet).