Friday, September 9, 2011

Bedrock nitrogen may help forests buffer climate change



Research at the University of California has brought up an incredible discovery, Forest trees have the ability to take nitrogen from the rocks, boosting the trees' growth and their ability to pull more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Carbon Dioxide is the most important climate-change gas, nitrogen in rocks could significaly affect how rapidly Earth will warn in the future. Professor Benjamin Houlton said that this discovery changes the entire nitrogen cycle and all textbooks theories. Scientists now have now not only take into consideration the nitrogen from the atmosphere, but now how rocks affect climate change.

This Article is a discovery-based science, and its importance is that trees can help our global warming problem, but if we keep cutting them down, we are going to have a major problem.




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