Promoting Public Health: Green plants reduce pollution on city streets up to eight times more than previously believed

Promoting Public Health: Green plants reduce pollution on city streets up to eight times more than previously believed

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Today’s report concludes that trees, bushes and other greenery growing in the concrete-and-glass canyons of cities can reduce levels of two of the most worrisome air pollutants by eight times more than previously believed. A report on the research appears
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vor 4 Monaten
Today’s report concludes that trees, bushes and other greenery
growing in the concrete-and-glass canyons of cities can reduce
levels of two of the most worrisome air pollutants by eight times
more than previously believed. A report on the research appears in
the ACS journal Environmental Science and Technology.
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