An international group of researchers report that the smell of forest pine could prove an important link in the battle against climate change.

 

An article in Science Daily magazine/journal discusses how particles contained within the smell of forest pines create chemical aerosols to help protect against climate change. The smell of forest pines is a distinctive scent and it seems may well have a healing effect on climate change and global warming, to create a wetter environment.

 

This research follows on from an article in the journal Nature back in 2009. It seems the chemical aerosols created by the world's pine forests react with oxygen to create low volatility vapors that in turn create cloud droplets and have a cooling effect on the environment.

 

Scientists believe that as global warming increases rates of photosynthesis will increase correspondingly and have a positive and cooling effect on temperatures. Of course this research is in its initial stages and the researchers have already warned that if forests become too stressed by heat or lack of water the pine vapor will not continue to be made.