Humans are filling the atmosphere with more and more pollution. How does it get out of the air and where does it go? For complex pollutants in the atmosphere, having a bit of hydroxide around helps break it down but where does it come from? Hydroxide can spontaneously generate in droplets but it doesn't seem to need sunlight's or photo-chemistry. Spontaneous generation of hydroxide in water droplets helps clean up our atmosphere. Which trees are best at cleaning up the air around them? From conifers to broad leave trees which help keep our air clean the best? C is for conifer, and their leaves and needles help capture pollution out of the air. Broadleaf trees are well...broad and this helps them capture lots of air pollution.
References:
Lagrange Point Episode 535 - Trees growing faster during droughts
Episode 534 - Finding a rocky asteroid belt around another star
Episode 533 - Bacteria melting ice and changing the planet
Episode 532 - Bacteria reviving themselves when the time is right
Lagrange Point Episode 531 - Measuring the expansion of the universe
Episode 530 - Fully recyclable electronics
Episode 529 - Listening in on conversations inside your body
Episode 528 - How our senses pass information to our brains
Episode 527 - Concrete in space from blood, sweat, tears and chips
Episode 526 - Capturing biological process in action
Episode 525 - Life in a radiation exclusion zone and #2023MMM
Episode 524 - Bacteria’s sneaky 1-2 punch to get into your brain
Episode 523 - Sinking carbon out of seawater and carbon storage in wood
Episode 522 - Making hydrogen greenly from Seawater
Episode 521 - Galaxies at the Cosmic Dawn
Episode 520 - There and back again - tales from a wandering space probe
Episode 519 - Evolving beaks and wild chickens
Episode 518 - Aurora on Jupiter and on Earth
Episode 517 - Cute green balls of algae and a changing climate
Episode 517 - How our body senses and interacts with the world
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