Recent Mass Media Headlines Include…
Forest fires (burning trees) cause pollution, global warming, raised CO2, lead, mercury and heavy metal to be released into the air & water.
DAHHHH! That’s where it came from. Am I missing something or did everyone miss this class in grade school “earth & life science” classes…
Excerpt…
"When we walk across the surface of a peat land, we are standing on many thousands of years of accumulation," Turetsky said. "This type of wetland is actually doing us a service. Peat lands have been storing mercury from the atmosphere since well before and during the Industrial Revolution, locking it in peat where it's not causing any biological harm, away from the food web."
Ahhh beautiful trees, our natural filter for the environment. Cleaning the air we breath, the water we drink and the soil that grows our food. While trees clean the environment, it is not “magical”, it is biofiltering. While well understood by the “natural resource” & “wastewater” sectors, it appears to be a “complex” or “new” subject to the media…
A GOOD read is always research. Here is a link to some recent “facts” of this so called “new” news…
