The Plant That Eats Metal: How Rinorea niccolifera Could Clean the Earth
In the thick, trembling air of the Philippines’ tropical forests, something extraordinary grows, and not with vengeance or poison, but with purpose. This plant doesn’t bloom to be admired, although I admire it just the same, and it doesn’t wilt in shame. No, it consumes metal. Its roots curl through the earth like quiet scientists, … Read more