Pine Needles Predict Air Quality? USU Researcher Says Yes
June 17, 2026
June 17, 2026
LOGAN, Utah, June 17 -- Utah State University issued the following news:
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Pine Needles Predict Air Quality? USU Researcher Says Yes
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Modern science has provided equipment for sampling air quality, but Mother Nature has been doing it much longer -with nothing but a bundle of pine needles.
Professor Randy Martin from the Utah Water Research Laboratory has used pine needles as passive air quality samplers in a recent study comp . . .
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Pine Needles Predict Air Quality? USU Researcher Says Yes
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Modern science has provided equipment for sampling air quality, but Mother Nature has been doing it much longer -with nothing but a bundle of pine needles.
Professor Randy Martin from the Utah Water Research Laboratory has used pine needles as passive air quality samplers in a recent study comp . . .