Natural_Selections
Water Splitters - Yule Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)
Green River Bluffs Trail
Mammoth Cave National Park, KY, USA.
This fern is aka christmas fern.
The title, "Water Splitters," refers to the chlorophyll (the green stuff in the fern cells), which splits water (H2O) and combines the hydrogen atoms with the greenhouse gas, CO2, and creates glucose, (C6H12O6), the universal fuel source for living things on this planet. That splitting of water also gives us O2, oxygen gas, which living things need to survive! So, let's plant more ferns, and trees, and other greenhouse gas-sucking plants. And let's produce fewer of those climate changing gases by reducing the burning of fossil fuels. Can the solution to the pollution of our air be that simple? Yes, it is! So, go out and plant some plants...now, and ride your bike to work!!
Water Splitters - Yule Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)
Green River Bluffs Trail
Mammoth Cave National Park, KY, USA.
This fern is aka christmas fern.
The title, "Water Splitters," refers to the chlorophyll (the green stuff in the fern cells), which splits water (H2O) and combines the hydrogen atoms with the greenhouse gas, CO2, and creates glucose, (C6H12O6), the universal fuel source for living things on this planet. That splitting of water also gives us O2, oxygen gas, which living things need to survive! So, let's plant more ferns, and trees, and other greenhouse gas-sucking plants. And let's produce fewer of those climate changing gases by reducing the burning of fossil fuels. Can the solution to the pollution of our air be that simple? Yes, it is! So, go out and plant some plants...now, and ride your bike to work!!