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Air pollution destroying flowers' natural fragrance

Posted By admin On March 28, 2008 (2:49 pm) In Sports

 

 

 

London, Mar 28 (ANI): Trying to woo a woman with a sweet-smelling bouquet of

blooms flowers may not work any more, for flowers are fast losing their scent

due to air pollution.

 

The finding is based on new research led by Jose Fuentes that appears on the

natural history website loveearth.com.

 

And, researchers state, that the effect will be devastating, for if flowers lose

their natural fragrances, they will then not be able to attract pollinating

insects like bees, thus hastening the blooms extinction.

 

Researchers who conducted the study warn that pollution has already taken such a

toll that insects now often cant smell flowers if they are more than 200 metres

away, as compared to a mile away before the industrial revolution.

 

Pollution is also making flowers unhealthy and their colours less vibrant, in

turn making them less attractive to insects.

 

The study was funded by the US National Science Foundation. (ANI)

 

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