Sunflowers to clean radioactive soil in Japan
From the AFP:
Campaigners in Japan are asking people to grow sunflowers, said to help decontaminate radioactive soil, in response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster that followed March’s massive quake and tsunami.
Volunteers are being asked to grow sunflowers this year, then send the seeds to the stricken area where they will be planted next year to help get rid of radioactive contaminants in the plant’s fallout zone.
Sunflowers were also used to help leech radiation following the Chernobyl disaster. The use of plants to help clean up environmental problems is called “phytoremediation.” Sunflowers can also be used to absorb arsenic. There are a lot of plants that can be used to do stuff like this. Nature: fuck yeah.