Moss : A Cheap Pollution Monitor

Delicate mosses found on rocks and trees in cities around the world can be used to measure the impact of atmospheric change and could prove a low-cost way to monitor urban pollution.

Bioindicators

  • They are living organisms such as plants, planktons, animals, and microbes, which are utilized to screen the health of the natural ecosystem in the environment.
  • They are used for assessing environmental health and biogeographic changes taking place in the environment.
  • Each organic entity inside a biological system provides an indication regarding the health of its surroundings such as plankton responding rapidly ....
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