Reduce Pollution? Cut Down Trees!

[Gobalopper]

Pine forests may pollute more than traffic, industry

Coniferous forests around the world may be emitting more smog-causing nitrogen oxides than traffic and industry combined, suggests a report in the prestigious journal Nature.

:D

[IxianMace]

Funny, but if those trees were around for a lot longer than the traffic and industry, and the ecosystem was fine back then, I don't think it's the trees we should be focusing on to reduce pollution.

[Vanguard3000]

IxianMace: They're not "blaming" the trees, they're just posting the fact that trees do create NO and similar chemicals.

[IxianMace]

Well they say they are producing similar chemicals, so I guess they are implying that trees are a source of pollution, and therefore should be got rid off. Ok, so they may not be blaming them, but that's the impression that I got. ::)

[slaphapy]

this may be a little off topic but, i heard about a genus of tree that only has one species in the genus left... it's called the ginkgo biloba tree (i think) and it actually takes in more polution (and changes it into O2) then any other type of tree... the only reason the one species of it is left is that the uhhh japanese i think kept it in their gardens... making the species live longer

this is the tree that they use some chemical or something that is in the leaves to make pills for memory

i may be wrong though...

[TMA_1]

yeah, ginko is looked upon as a kind of panacea by many asian countries. I think what it is getting at, is that the balance of wildlife has been thrown off. Originally all the plants worked off eachother in a lightly stable alliance. It worked as long as nothing messed with the eco system. Well we did. oops.lol

[Davidu]

Well, we'd better clean up the mess we did... or we'll die in a hell-like world.

[Boba Fett]

this may be a little off topic but, i heard about a genus of tree that only has one species in the genus left... it's called the ginkgo biloba tree (i think) and it actually takes in more polution (and changes it into O2) then any other type of tree... the only reason the one species of it is left is that the uhhh japanese i think kept it in their gardens... making the species live longer

this is the tree that they use some chemical or something that is in the leaves to make pills for memory

i may be wrong though...

I think its called the bilaboab tree. It definitely has 'boab' in it.

[slaphapy]

well, i know that one name for it is definitely ginkgo biloba... i'm sure it probably has other names in other countries though...

[Dante]

Well, we'd better clean up the mess we did... or we'll die in a hell-like world.

Well we've got one of the two...