Carbon plays a major role in our climate crisis. Scientists are studying the carbon cycle as it travels to and from the atmosphere and they are trying to reduce our carbon footprint. A new study shows that mint plants are able to help this crisis. Through photosynthesis the palnt allows a mouse to live in a closed jar. We can not inhale CO2, or we will die but plants absorb CO2, use it for growth and return it as oxygen for us to live. The worse part is that each year we dump 8.8 billions of ton of carbon into the air but only half of that is used in the atmosphere. So the question is basically "who stole the carbon?". Scientists found out that forests, waters in the oceans and grasslands are acting as carbon sinks. They are taking approximately half of the carbon we emit and slowing up its effects on the climate.
Natural things are now playing more than one role. Carbon sinks use to be trees but now waters of the oceans plays a role. They are delaying climate change. The cycle of carbon from the atmosphere to trees to the soil and the oceans is used as energy for all ecosystems that it passes. his begs the question of the real cycle of carbon, how is the ocean able to retain carbon?
This might pose a threat in the future some scientists suspect, wondering if later the carbon sinks will eventually release all the stored carbon at once. They might become carbon sources and might even release more carbon than absorbed back in our atmosphere. We have witnessed what impact we have on the climate but what if natural resources join our patterns. Imagine drinking carbonated water and the poor creatures in the ocean that are risking their lives. Carbon is helpful but too much of anything can lead to destruction.
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