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Common indoor plants may prove to be a valuable weapon in the fight against rising levels of indoor air pollution. Those plants in your office or home are not only decorative, but NASA scientists are finding them to be surprisingly useful in absorbing potentially harmful gases and cleaning the air inside modern buildings. 普通室内盆栽植物可能是很有价值的武器，可以用来对付日益严重的室内空气污染。那些摆放在你办公室或家中的植物不仅是装饰品，而且美国国家航空航天局发现，它们在吸收潜在有害气体和净化现代建筑内的空气方面还能起到令人惊异的作用。 NASA and the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA) have announced the findings of a 2?year study that suggest the common indoor plant may provide a natural way of helping combat "Sick Building Syndrome." 美国国家航空航天局和美国园林产业联合会发布了他们研究两年后的发现：普通室内植物可能提供一种帮助防治 “大楼综合症”的自然方式。 Research into the use of biological processes as a means of solving environmental problems, both on Earth and in space habitats, has been carried out for many years by Dr. Bill Wolverton, formerly a senior research scientist at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Miss. 比尔·沃尔弗顿博士同时在地球上和太空站里，对使用生物方法作为一种解决环境污染问题的手段，进行了多年的研究。沃尔弗顿博士先前是美国国家航空航天局位于密西西比州贝圣路易斯的约翰·斯坦尼斯航天中心的高级研究员。 | 
