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Practice Reading: Reading and Writing Fill in the Blanks ID: #33406 Ozone
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Clones  of  an  Eastern  cottonwood  (Populus  deltoides)  in  the  Bronx  and  other  city  spots  grew  to  double  the  biomass  of  clones    outside  small  towns  upstate  or  on  Long  Island,  says  Jillian  Gregg,  now  of  the  Environmental  Protection  Agency's  western-ecology  division  in  Corvallis,  Ore.  The  growth  gap  comes  from  ozone  damage,  she  and  her  New  York  colleagues  report.  Ozone  chemists  have  known  that  concentrations  may  spike  skyscraper  high  in  city  air,  but  during  a  full  24  hours,  rural  trees  actually  get  a  higher  cumulative  ozone  exposure  from  urban  pollution  that    in  and  lingers.  A  series  of  new  experiments  now  shows  that  this  hang-around  ozone  is  the    factor  in  tree  growth,  the  researchers  say  in  the  July  10  Nature.  "This  study  has  profound  importance  in  showing  us  most  vividly  that  rural  areas    the  price  for  urban  pollution,"  says  Stephen  P.  Long  of  the  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana-Champaign.  "This  work  should  be  a  wake-up  call,"  he  adds.

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