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May 13, 2022 04:08 pm GMT
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/05/13/scientists-have-figured-out-a-way-to-farm-metals-from-plants.html
Scientists have figured out a way to farm metals from plants
According to The Guardian, there's a team of researchers in northern Greece who have spent the last few years experimenting with ways to harvest metal though agriculture:
— Read the restIn a remote, beautiful field, high in the Pindus mountains in Epirus, they are experimenting with a trio of shrubs known to scientists as "hyperaccumulators": plants which have evolved the capacity to thrive in naturally metal-rich soils that are toxic to most other kinds of life.
Original Link: https://boingboing.net/2022/05/13/scientists-have-figured-out-a-way-to-farm-metals-from-plants.html
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