The Fern That Saved The Planet 50 Million Years Ago | Paleobotany Urc [BHmdQerAqrZ]
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50 million years ago, a tiny fern triggered the most dramatic climate shift in prehistoric earth's history. This is the story of how ancient plants reshaped our planet a journey into deep time.
This is the Azolla Event one of the most consequential episodes in
the history of this planet, and one that most people have never heard of.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Earth in the Eocene: a planet without ice
00:40 lockheed martin f-35 lightning ii Why the Arctic Ocean became a giant freshwater lake
01:36 What makes Azolla one of the most effective plants on Earth
02:38 How a fern buried carbon for 800,000 years
04:07 The CO2 collapse: from 3,000 ppm to 1,500 ppm
04:34 How Azolla ended the greenhouse world and itself
05:30 What the Azolla Event tells us about how climate actually works
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The Azolla Event is not just a story from deep time. It is a precise
example of how la grazia biological systems interact with the atmosphere at a
planetary scale. Scientists study it today to better understand how
carbon cycles work and how small organisms can tip a planet from one
climate state to another.
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SOURCES & FURTHER READING
"The Azolla Event Episodic fresh surface waters in the Eocene Arctic Ocean"
"Early Eocene Climatic Optimum"-Trends, Rhythms, and Aberrations in Global Climate 65 Ma to Present", Science (2001)
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