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Nature Podcast

27 June 2018: Air pollution, sick plants, and stress

Nature Podcast

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🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, the relationship between air pollution and infant death in Africa, stressed brains, and diagnosing sick plants from afar.

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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground,

0:06.0

sun on your face as you slide by, on track to your destination.

0:12.0

Not a care in the world as you simply lean back.

0:17.0

And before you know it, you're there.

0:20.0

This is how travel should feel.

0:22.5

And on our trains, it does.

0:25.2

Avanti West Coast, feel good travel.

0:32.2

In an experiment, I don't know yet. Why is Blight so far?

0:40.3

Like it sounds so simple.

0:41.3

They had no idea.

0:43.3

But now the data's...

0:44.3

I find this not only refreshing, but at some level astounding.

0:52.3

Nature.

0:53.3

Welcome back to the Nature podcast. Nature.

1:01.1

Welcome back to the nature podcast. This week we're hearing how researchers are diagnosing diseased plants from afar and looking at the link between air pollution and infant mortality

1:06.2

in sub-Saharan Africa. Plus, we'll be learning how newly formed neurons influence how mice

1:11.8

respond to stress. I'm Charmany Bundell. And I'm Adam Levy.

1:15.5

And I'm Adam Levy. Air pollution causes a vast number of deaths across the globe.

1:31.3

But what is that number?

1:33.3

Back in 2015, atmospheric scientist Yoss Lelyvel told the Nature podcast about his research

1:39.3

on the lives air pollution claims.

1:41.3

This is an astounding number of more than 3 million premature deaths per year worldwide

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