I read about sunflowers being able to clean up radiation a few months ago, but only now stumbled upon this project in Japan which is involving the whole country in growing and planting sunflowers near Fukushima to help remove radiation from the soil. What a beautiful cheerful flower to have growing in such a damaged area, the sunflower project is already in full swing. As it turns out bacteria are also able to remove radiation from the earth, although that doesn’t seem to be as simple as planting sunflowers. In the meantime mushrooms have been discovered in Chernobyl that are thriving on gamma radiation — isn’t mother nature incredible?