A small ant may rid the world of global warming!

Written By ديانا الحموري on 2014/08/04

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com - Recently published research on <strong>climate</strong> by a group of scientists, the results of which were published in the scientific journal &quot;Geology&quot;, and this research concluded that <strong><a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/تعرفوا-على-الفوائد-المذهلة-لقرصة-النمل">ants</a></strong> may one day become one of the most powerful biological climate brokers on Earth.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">According to the research, the huge biological mass of ants, working in a regular rhythm, can contribute to the removal of large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, since their numbers began to reproduce 65 million years ago.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">The long-term impact of the ants&#39; life on the soil is important - despite their life span of less than a year on average - especially for their important role in cooling the Earth&#39;s climate with the growth of their numbers.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">According to Ronald Doron, a biologist at Arizona State University, the ants work to change the environment, as some types of ants have been discovered, called &quot;weather ants&quot;, which work to secrete calcium carbonate or limestone, and in turn work to capture and removing quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">Scientists also discovered through their studies that ants are powerful natural weapons through which basalt sand collapses, and that it has the ability to break down minerals between 50 and 300 times faster than sand on bare ground.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">See also:</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong><a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/من-الغرائب-انتحار-جماعي-لمُستعمرة-نمل-عن-الطريق-الدوران-حتى-الموت">Among the oddities: the mass suicide of an ant colony by circling to death</a></strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong><a href="http://www.arabiaweather.com/content/علماء-الإحتباس-الحراري-سجل-مستوى-تاريخياً-خلال-2013">Scientists: global warming recorded a historical level during 2013</a></strong></p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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