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Thursday, December 3. 2009

A New Way to Clean Contaminated Ground?

What if special trees could clean up contaminated sites?

Argonne Labs may be on the verge of this new method. Contaminated sites, known as "brownfields," are expensive and difficult to clean.

But trees, specially developed to grow deep and straight root systems, may be the answer.

The video at right explains this possible new breakthrough.

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