New Source of Global Nitrogen Discovered

Global climate is a LARGE concern in today's environment. However, a solution could have just been discovered. It was recently found that around 1/4 of all nitrogen on Earth comes from earth's bedrock. This means the rock is key to holding more carbon and helping the Earth's natural cycles take place. The way this works is through erosion/weathering, the rock releases nitrogen and the way the weathering occurs determines the amount of viable nitrogen in the rock. This has explained the gap that has occurred in where nitrogen comes from in the world. Before, the missing gap went unexplained until now.

I personally think this is an amazing thing that was discovered for a more natural state. However, I believe that this might start getting abused as soon as new research is discovered. As everything in a natural state is diminished, this could possibly be ruined by basic human desire to look for a new way to change the current environment. This also makes me think that if there was a gap in nitrogen sources, maybe there are more gaps with other systems that we still don't comprehend.

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  1. AnonymousMay 2, 2018 at 7:08 AM

    I think that this is so cool and a very essential discover for our earth! But I also agree with your comment about how this resource will get abused very quickly. I find that humans tend to waste whatever they have so I am interested to see what happens.

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