Atlanta Researcher Looks To Trees To Help Ease Highway Air Pollution

Air pollution expert Christina Fuller, a Georgia State University public health professor, is doing research on how effective trees can be in helping to filter out pollution.

Kaitlin Kolarik / For WABE

Plenty of Atlantans spend time on highways, speeding or inching or swerving along. But many people spend a lot of time near the highways, too: at their homes, schools or workplaces.

And that’s not great for their health.

In addition to greenhouse gases that cause climate change, car and truck emissions have been linked to heart and lung problems.