Pollution affects scent of flowers

Researchers in Virginia found due to pollution the scent of floers, which could travel up to 4,000 feet during the 19th century, now travels not even a quarter of that distance.

Courtesy: Paul Ford, Harper’s Weekly Review, April 15, 2008
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“Key to Scent of Flowers”, Sci Tech, The Hindu, Nov.27, 2003
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/seta/2003/11/27/stories/2003112701001600.htm

“Pollution ‘dulling the scent of flowers’”, Sci Tech, The Hindu, April 20, 2008
http://www.hindu.com/holnus/008200804201550.htm’

“Pollution dulling the scent of flowers”, Financial Express, April 21, 2008
http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Pollution-dulling-the-scent-of-flowers/299506/

“Scented Flowers and Foliages”, (Fragrances can have an effect on our emotions and wellbeing)
http://www.flowers.org.uk/flowers/trivia/scent.htm

“Pollution dulling the scent of flowers”, Sci Tech, Eco News, www.zeenews.com (Pollution is endangering the most essential cycles of nature.)
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=437809&sid=ENV&ssid=26

“Pollution stifling flowers’ scents’, Alok Jha, Science Correspondent The Guardian, Monday April 14 2008, (why bees and other pollinating insects are in decline)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/14/pollution.conservation

“Why flowers have lost their scent?”, Wren’s Nest News, Article 19614, posed April 20, 2009 (Pollution is dulling the scent of flowers and impeding some of the most basic processes of nature, disrupting insect life and imperilling food supplies).
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/why-flowers-have-lost-their-scent-812168.html