We’ve previously heard that climate change might make the world smellier, but
that’s not the case in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where environmentalists and
scientists have found that flowers are losing their fragrances.
Asia One spoke to Science and Technology Professor Emeritus at the University of
Kebangsaan Malaysia, Dr. Abdul Latif Mohamad, who offered “plausible reasons as
to why some pollinators were not spreading flower seeds, a pattern caused by the
missing ‘scent trail’ with scent tissues burning easily due to global warming.”
“The aroma producing chemical compounds in flowers dry up faster now compared
with before.” The only way out, he said, was to genetically modify the flowers
so that the effects would not be permanent and the future generation would not
be robbed of nature’s beauty.
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