Study: Pollution making flowers lose their smell

[Rog]

Spring's bloom may not smell so sweet anymore, as pollutants from power plants and automobiles destroy flowers' aromas, a new study suggests.

Study: Flowers Losing Smell - Yahoo! News

[include]

That sucks. I can understand how pollution makes the air smell gross, kinda nullifying the flowers smell, but actually changing the way flowers smell?? That's just wrong!

[arno]

Which in turn impedes bees from polinating them.

washingtonpost.com

Air pollution interferes with the ability of bees and other insects to follow the scent of flowers to their source, undermining the essential process of pollination, a new study suggests. The findings may help unlock part of the mystery surrounding the current pollination crisis that is affecting a wide variety of crops.