27 June 2018: Air pollution, sick plants, and stress
Nature Podcast
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4.5 • 893 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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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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