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Trees Eat Pollution Products Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Environment   
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Leaves can absorb organic nitrates and turn them into amino acids. Forest canopies can suck up organic nitrogen compounds produced from pollutants and turn them into useful amino acids. Paul Shepson and his colleagues at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, believe they are the first to show that trees can take in organic nitrates through their leaves and then process the nitrogen. (source: nature.com)
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