Seoul’s gingko bushes assist take in the carbon dioxide produced by visitors
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Changing into Earth
Ferris Jabr (Picador (UK); Penguin Random Home (US))
Ginkgos had been first planted in Seoul about 800 years in the past. At this time, over 100,000 of those big bushes soak up carbon dioxide spewed out by the town’s visitors, exhaling the oxygen people must stay. It’s a coexistence with which we’re acquainted, but it exemplifies a precept past each day expertise.
In Changing into Earth: How our planet got here to life, science author Ferris Jabr weaves a tapestry out of the complicated relationships that…
