Plants fighting pollution
Meet the plants that clear up oil spills and provide clean water.
Clearing up pollution can be a messy and expensive task, but around the world people are harnessing the power of plants to do the job for them.
We hear how water hyacinths are going from hated weed to providing communities with a greener water filtration solution; how plants in the Niger Delta are helping rejuvenate land drenched in oil and devastated by fire and ask whether plants could be the future to more environmentally friendly mining.
Presenter: Myra Anubi
Reporter: Georgina Rannard
Reporter/producer: Lizzy McNeill
Producer: Zoe Gelber
Series producer: Tom Colls
Sound mix: Hal Haines
Editor: Penny Murphy
Email: peoplefixingtheworld@bbc.co.uk
Image: A water hyacinth (Getty Images)
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- Tue 17 Jan 2023 08:06GMT大象传媒 World Service
- Tue 17 Jan 2023 15:06GMT大象传媒 World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
- Tue 17 Jan 2023 18:06GMT大象传媒 World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
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