Climate change increases the risk of cancer

A study by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) shows that, when the earth warms, two polar ice sheets will release large amounts of carcinogenic substances into the air and oceans.

Climate change may be the cause of increased risk of cancer. (Photo: internet).

The Daily Mail said, the study shows that, once sustainable chemicals follow the food chain into the body, it will increase the incidence of cancer, cardiovascular disease, or infertility.

Researchers believe that extreme weather events and warming the Earth will increase exposure rates to polluted materials.

These persistent organic pollutants ( POPs for short) can exist in the environment for decades, and can accumulate in organizations within the body. According to scientists, they include DDT insecticides , or Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in electrical devices.

Donald Cooper , of UNEP, who will publish the report at the UN Climate Conference in Cancun, Mexico, said in the past, the dispersal of POPs into seawater and air has been prevented by glaciers. However, extreme climatic phenomena, such as floods in Pakistan this year, will cause a lot of pollutants to be stored or waiting to be dispersed into the environment. In addition, the warming of the Earth will cause malaria to spread and people will have to use more DDT to deal with insect-borne insects.

Cooper thinks that even a very small amount of POPs enter the food chain, however, through years of accumulation, their concentration will get higher and higher. And the end of the food chain is not anyone else who is human.

" We found these toxic substances in human milk and human blood ," Cooper said.

' It's not a problem for you to be in Kenya or in the UK because food is taken around the world. This is a global problem, regardless of boundaries , 'Cooper adds.