How Azolla Changed the Earth
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- 49 million years ago the planet had an industrial little organism working its way to destroying the climate. No it wasn't aliens, it was a plant known as Azolla. Just watch the video, it'll make more sense.
your video is soo informative but..please lower the volume of your background music..it is kinda disturbing.thanks👍
Thanks for watching! Unfortunately this is one of my earlier videos when I didn't know how to mix sounds well, so I apologize for the sound :(
there's no need to apologize hehe 😊😊
@@AtlasPro1 Maybe you should consider reuploading your video, because I guess now you know way better how to mix the sound. I really loved this video, your channel is awesome. I would greatly appreciate a version with lower music volume, because the message you want to deliver with the video is so important and people should clearly understand what you say. So then I could share the video in it´s best possible form or version. Besides keep your great work up going, entertaining and informative format, really like it! :)
Music is OK, but ... not this one. Here's a truly Awwe-some topic, very deep, but with a music perfectly fit for boddy-building equipment adds on TV. Kind of strange result.
Come along way since then
No one plant should have all that power.
Yes!!
I am azolla's lex Luthor!
Jk,
I actually want azolla for my terrariums and to just help reduce global warming in my own small way
Why do you think the devs nerfed them
We humans are looking at this and are like "hold my beer, this is the Anthropocene Epoch bitches"
Duckweed: Hold my roots
The clock's ticking I just count the hours
Fun fact, azolla is a really popular aquarium floater plant! Shrimp love to eat it and it is simply gorgeous on the top of your tank. Do your part and put azolla in your aquariums not only for your fish oxygen needs but for yourself!
"smarter than a plant"? You ask too much of us.
do we can call this period Dagobah Earth
We definitely should haha
it does say at the beginning of Star Wars "a long time ago" so looks like we were Dagobah and then changed name to Earth so the Sith would leave us alone
@@wiezyczkowata we were also Hoth at some point as well.
@@numega7323 you are right!!
in India people have started azolla farming for high quality cattle feed..
Where in our country dude🤔
@@tbraghavendran i also use azolla to my chicken to feed them
Plants did not provide the initial oxygen revolution. That was done by cyanobacteria and algae long before plants came about. Even today, plants account for only one third total oxygen production.
this is not at all about oxygen production
this was a bout carbon sequestration more than the oxygen production
that was my thought during the first bit of the video - and all the way through it i was questioning the factual accuracy wondering if the author had mistaken cyanobacteria ( blue green algae ) for azola, a plant. I had to pause the vid and come to the comments section. When i returned to the vid i learned heaps about why i should grow more azola
@@kparker2430 Chicken food and fish food for me. 40% protein and doubles mass weekly i cant believe we dont use it for everything. Like every surface area wasted with grass can be Azollified and thats your livestock fed
@@MrWackozacko totally! :) as you point out the production is sooo good, i feel that every body should be taught in school how to maximise productivity and garner yield from places where without Azola, there is no yield. I salute your personal discovery of it Odin, a man after my own heart.
Good talk. Less music. You don’t see David Attenborough being over powered by music.
The Azolla Event and how it came to be: *extremely interesting*
That settles it. We need to start growing Azolla as the “ultimate oxygen producer” plant.
Well, it is a popular aquarium plant :P
@@WhatIsMisophonia I guess, but in an aquarium its not at its full potiential, it helps keep the tank clean though
And now we're realasing all that trapped CO2 back into the atmosphere!
Ohhh exactly
"Oil"
Instead of climate catastrophe we can call it Planet Rainforest 2.0.
we're not even close to putting all of that co2 back and plate tectonics have had a large factor in climate. Silly to hear people discuss climate as if it were a simple cut and dry system.
@@buzzlaw simplifying to make it easier for people to understand the basics of climate change isn't silly, it's useful.
Hey. I just started watching your videos, and I gotta say, they're really informative and pleasant to watch.
Now I'm kinda scared to write this because I don't want to sound like a jerk, but I think and hope you'll understand and appreciate the criticism. I think that your inflection could use some improvement. It sounds too much like you are reading the lines. I think some more change in the tone of your voice would make it feel more engaging. I'm not sure how hard that is to do, since I've never tried doing anything like this, but I hope this advice is helpful.
thanks a lot, I have trouble reading it myself, it's something I'm trying to work on. I'm going to try to improve on that in the next video!
Would it be possible to use azolla to fight global warming? We already create eutrophic areas from farmland runoff, and we could possibly help create those anaerobic conditions to prevent decomposition.
If we have space to do it...
How many hundreds of thousands of years do you want to keep it up for? It took 800,000 years using an area of 4,000,000 square kilometers to get such a drastic change. Granted, we would be looking for something like 5-10% of that change, but even using 400,000 square kilometers for 80,000 years for 1% of the difference seems a bit difficult to pull off.
@@Minecraftian2345432 What about 400,000,000 square kilometres in 80 years?
@@MrLorem64 so you want to dedicate 80% of the planet to this one plant until 2100, hope you like anaerobic swamps
@@MrLorem64 I think Soken50 summed up the main issue with that. Also, I don't think we even have the technical capability to even get a few percent of our planet fit for that plan even with the political will. A nutrient rich tropical environment on top of an anaerobic ocean that regularly covers dead plant matter in dirt isn't exactly the easiest thing to create on a large scale. In short, I very much doubt that plant being able to be used to cool the Earth by humans on Earth in a time scale that would be usable.
Almost looks like a succulent plant. It's amazing how important algae was in ancient oceans and microbes that also gave off oxygen. To then team up with these plants to fill out atmosphere with oxygen.
If only it was more feasible to turn it into fuel.
It's a fern
Azolla: _I’m not like other ferns~_
This and "Eutrophication Explained" are the two videos on this channel that I think deserve way more views. Both are super well-researched and informative, shame they don't get more love
i can feel the improvement in your recent videos from seeing these old videos!
We should try to act smarter than a plant.
That gave me goosebumps.
The music was used incorrectly in this video.
I see in your later videos, you perfected it. Congratulations on improving over time.
we could actually do this exact thing to save the climate right now as the black sea has this same thing going on thats why we can still find ancient roman wrecks at the bottom that havn't really decomposed at all cus most bacteria cant chill down there also future russia will thank us for the oil
Caspian sea, which is basically a brackish lake, would be even more suitable, especially the north side where the salinity is even lower.
Good ideas won’t work, that area isn’t as warm as it needs to be. That’s why their isn’t any azolla now. I suppose in like 20 years when are able to modify plants we could do something like that
@@brodywilson7892 What about the big African lakes: Victoria, Tanganika, Malawi etc? They should be warm enough.
@@florinadrian5174 But not salty. Mediterranean Sea is the perfect candidate.
no please, just use fewer cars. you will kill the eco system there. plus if it gets out of hand we will have another ice age. Not cool.
lowkey been my favorite channel that I just found, getting a really nice intuitive grasp for the natural world!
The video is interesting, but the music is loud and annoying. I would find it better without music.
they need warmish temps, fresh water and nutrients. the fresh water came from rivers that transported much of the nutrients it needed to live. and because of the high salinity and low disturbance, it was able to maintain the freshness.
Fascinating video! I learnt so much and it left me wanting to learn more :)
You get one tiny piece of duckweed in an aquarium and before you know it, the top is covered with the stuff. It is nearly impossible to get rid of it
One thing you probably should have mentioned is while the land was lush and green, the oceans where acid and dead
@Cracked Emerald Where did you hear that from? As far as I can tell marine biota recovered from the K-Pg by the begining of the eocene. Here is a quote from wikipedia;
"The Eocene oceans were warm and teeming with fish and other sea life. The first carcharinid sharks evolved, as did early marine mammals, including Basilosaurus, an early species of whale that is thought to be descended from land animals that existed earlier in the Eocene. The first sirenians, relatives of the elephants, also evolved at this time."
I know wikipedia isn't an ideal source but I'm not writing a doctoral thesis :P
@@davesulphate4497 Google the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum or PETM.
The PETM is associated with the largest deep-sea mass extinction event in the last 93 million years.
@@swirvinbirds1971 Thanks for that, it is interesting but nowhere am I finding any information that supports the statement that "the oceans were acid and dead". In fact during this time there was a very diverse marine biota and the "mass extinction" only applied to calcareous benthic foraminifera, not fish, mammals etc. By most definitions (and it is a hard thing to properly define) this wouldn't even qualify as a mass extinction.
And what was the floor? Was it lava?
Azolla is an aquatic fern.Sometimes called Water Fern,or Mosquito Fern.
I want to see a chart of your subscriber growth. It went from 105 K to 124 since the last time I looked, which was yesterday.
I think the word you're looking for in your description is "industrious"
This video meeds a remake. It seems bvery interesting but the music is too loud. It's difficult to follow
Still one of my favourite videos you've ever made. Cant put my finger on why though.
OMG!!! I've followed you for a hot minute! HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN TGIS VIDEO???
AWESOME VID!!!
(As always!)
Wow amazing stuff, you would be a good science teacher!
Thank you! I like to think I'm a kind of science teacher :)
@@AtlasPro1 yes you are, and a great one! Thank you!
This was fascinating. Thanks for making this!
Great video. I had been watching a lot of your videos these days, thanks for sharing
Each country's politician should watch this content.
Btw, Love from India 💝
Enjoyed the video very much, good job! Just would like to point out that Azolla actually do depend on symbiotic association with bacteria to fix nitrogen. The special thing about Azolla is that its symbiote is a cyanobacteria (what is not common) called Anabaena azollae. I am not sure if there is any terrestrial plant (Embryophyte) that can fix nitrogen all by it self.
Anabena is a very common cyanobacteria it is found in terrestrial soil due to low water requirements and nitrogen fixation
Production and the beats be on point on these videos. Keep up the good work
But it's not the first time that earth has had seasons nor is it the first time that earth experienced ice. It's always been in flux and will continue to do so despite how we may or may not change the atmosphere. This process with these plants occured over an 800,000 year period. The industrial age of man has been going on for roughly 200 years. That's quite a big difference
Love your videos. Great information about current day climate change and especially liked learning about the Azolla
wow! that's fast. you could hear this plant grow
Imagine lush forests all around the globe 🤩. That was so cool... I mean, so hot!
Alas that we don't live in those days. Strange that this enormous amount of fern had no natural grazers. Some plant grazing sea mammal would not care about anoxic waters and could have averted the climate disaster...
Well depends... In today's world, yes. But in the Eocene Cetaceans (whales) and other aquatic mammals were only evolving from terrestrial species then. So they probably weren't super specialised yet like today's ones.
Is it nessecarily a disaster
Hay do you think you can engineer a package to grow azolla in a small pond? Dose it still exist?
music is chill
This video proves that we all should have fishtanks to keep azolla
Could you bring any references?
Awesome topic by the way!
Ditto.
Another vote for re-editing the video to remove the noxious background music.
If the Arctic Ocean of that time grew salty and heavy due to its isolation, why isn't it happening to the Mediterranean sea in our time?
it is, just takes a while
www.ocean-sci.net/10/693/2014/os-10-693-2014.pdf
Music track name?
This topic is about some ancient, old old biology, with a mystery vibe, yet the music is totally in the other spectrum, it is very modern, very urban, very civilized. But the content is so good :)
Without watching the video azula almost changed the earth dramatically if her assassination attempt on the avatar was successful or if she would have killed her brother.
How much azola is required for making us co2 neutral
Depends. Do you want to optimize in terms of space or time consumption? If you want to keep one of them in the thousands (years/square kilometers), the other one most likely has to tend to the millions.
About 3.50
Very informative video.Thank you very much!!!
glad you enjoyed :)
I can't clearly understand what he's saying cause of the background music
Wow video quality has improved dramatically
Another vote for re-editing the video to remove the noxious background music
Am I the only one who saw this and thought “how can we harness azolla to sequester more carbon and try to limit climate change?” I’m sure that there are potential adverse effects or at the very least it’s way more complicated than that, but still.
wait for global warming then throw its seeds everywhere?
the problem is that there are now alot more decomposers than back then so even if we did all the same as back then it would mostly decompose without sequestering any long term carbon
How can a plant that uses photosynthesis survive in a place with little to no sunlight for 6 months of the year? Can someone explain because I really don't understand?
thanks, I learned a thing today.
Well at least it's somewhat comforting knowing that some other little plant may come along and repair our screw ups after we're gone.
What’s the name of the song track, please?
Thank you! I like your videos without music in the background, I find it distracting. Maybe something instrumental without a drumbeat?
The azolla event was also a thing around Antarctica, there have been Ice Houses before the one we are in where both poles were covered in ice, including Snow Ball Earth where more or less the whole planet was covered in ice.
I think he meant in the past 500 million years, mainly because we didn’t have land at both poles before at the same time there was an ice age.
@@PremierCCGuyMMXVI There is no lanf on the North Pole now - or anytime during the current Ice-House - so land is not a prerequisite - but it presumably helps.
@@rasmus619 I meat in the arctic circle but you get my point and I think he meant glaciers too
The code it was running worked incredibly in those conditions
What is your background music theme name? It make shake my body while learning about azola, in good way though :D
darude sandstorm
This video deserves way more views
Most important and the Best educational video among many but for the noxious music . Thanks for the info. I will share it.
@Atlas Pro, an amazing video, but why dou you say that now is the first time in Earth's history that poles are covered by ice?
Haven't there been earlier periods when all of Earth was frozen?
planet Mercury need a massive amount of azolla.
Wow, really good informative video! Fascinating to see how the world changes over time..
Yes, we humans need to be so much more responsible on how we can affect the climate both negatively and positively!
Others during this video:
Learning something new and interesting
Me during the video:
🕺 seated dancing
So an evil and powerhungry floating moss ruined our tropical paradise planet, and its up to us humans to restore it with global warming. I get it now.
Actually, that moss enables more evil than described. That moss is still beneath the Arctic Ocean but converted to methane (tens of gigatons) in the anaerobic environment. The moss removed a one time 900ppm concentration and continued removal for 800k years, removing far far more than the 900ppm concentration. That methane has been held frozen by the Arctic sea ice and it is now starting to release. It will release completely when the Arctic ice is gone, in about 10 years or so. This methane release and heating (methane is 100x more powerful than CO2 in the first five years or so, reducing to 20x over a century) is not in the IPCC climate models and consequential heating will be radical. Studies have shown that clouds do not form over 1200ppm carbon, even as the oceans evaporate faster with the higher temperature.
@@AZ-if2mj To put it shortly we are f****d.. Ice plates breaking off from Antarctica these days, sometimes of the size of counties or cities. The change of the currents in our oceans for example will also bring changes that we cant even really predict yet, thanks to the melted water and raising sea levels. No one really knows how our world will look like in 25-30 years but it will not be pleasant thats for sure.
i have a 10 gallon aquarium with water lettuce, frog bit and duckweed. too bad i dont have room for azola :/
What conditions in the arctic allowed Azolla to thrive more than it had previously done so in rivers?
This is the single best add for encouraging global warming.
Yes.
This is very misinformative! Plants did NOT create the first oxygen - cyanobacteria did it in the oceans far earlier and this oxygen diffused into the atmosphere 2.4 million years ago. It did have huge effects on the world but is not really linked to animals being able to grow larger. Plants migrated onto land ~470 million years ago, far later than you stated. This is all wrong in just the first minute. I liked your videos but now I'm worried that other ones aren't scientifically sound as well
agree
That's not what the video is about. It's not about where the first oxygen came from, it's about how huge amounts of CO2 got sequestered in the arctic, leading to a significant reduction in greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere and a global cooling event.
Does this mean that Azolla was on the Ark? Is this the green stuff in Gorgonzolla cheese? Just saying, or maybe I am trumped into my ignorance?
@@riotintheair Its cute that you are trying to defend him but what he said (about the origin of oxygen) was just not right and is very misleading for everyone who doesn't know it better
@@Classic-- It's not cute. The video is about a particular subject that just isn't what you're complaining about. He accurately describes the Azolla event regardless of what cyanobacteria did at any point (I assume you have a typo in 2.4 *million* years ago as that time frame has nothing interesting to offer for cyanobacteira or azolla). Notice how one mistake in the first reply doesn't make everything else written meaningless? But since you decided to be a massive ass about this I'll point out that it's cute the comment I replied to is off in their timeline by 3 orders of magnitude.
Music sounds like the plants are doing step aerobics
Image how big the trees and how thick the forests were in Eocene.
please reupload the video sans music entirely. this is much too cool and important of a topic to be covered by such harsh and deterring soundtrack.
Keep that volume, i can PARTY and LEARN!
very informative...history....
Glad you enjoyed :)
Even tidy. People are growing palm trees in temperate climates . Even in temperate stepps like in Idaho.
I made many videos from august 2020 to march 2021. The most complicated thing is the audio. It's not as easy as we might think.
So what you're saying is . . . if I burn all the fossil fuels, we can have tropical beaches in Alaska again? Sign me up.
When you realize burning fossilized azzola is returning the greenhouse effect
Lol you read my mind with those movie references.
just found this channel a few days ago and I fuckin love itt
Of course it can be understated. You mean it can't be overstated.
Didn't expect to enter a DANCE party when i clicked this but I'm not angry about it :)
I wouldn't mind having a tropical arctic again.
Cool stuff! The metaphor was rather obvious before you reached the conclusion, but it's a sombering methaphor anyway. While tragic for humanity, no doubt life will continue to find a way and thrive even if we are the catalyst to our own demise... but now I'm dangerously close to quoting Jurassic Park and we can't have that. Good video! But I'll agree that the music was a bit loud.
I’m a fan and addict to this channel but only made it 2-1/2 minutes into presentation due to background music
At 8:30 you say "Perhaps for the first time in earths history ice was to be found at both the north and the south pole." That sounds wrong to me, but if it is not wrong it would be great if you could elaborate on that point in some other video! =) (Love your vids! =) )
You need to re-edit the sound.
Why spend time and effort on the commentary when it can’t be clearly heard!!!?
this was mind-blowing.
The earth goes through changes as it has always been doing for billions of years. So no matter what we do the earth will still change from one phase to another regardless
Appreciate a lot the effort of giving all this information except for the music which is a nuisance.
This only means one thing. We need many, many azola plants again.
that high tempo music
I am surprised how undevastating to complex life on earth those seriously higher temperatures were.