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Ants: Our Saviors from Climate Change?


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'' They may be small, but researchers say they are having a big impact. Ants may be able to save the world from climate change, according to a new provocative study published in the journal Geology. Though their life span is less than a year, in this short amount of time ants' effect on soil reportedly cooled Earth's climate as their numbers grew.

"Ants are changing the environment," lead author Ronald Dorn, a geologist at Arizona State University, told Live Science...''

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/8397/20140805/ants-our-saviors-from-climate-change.htm

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As a carbon based life form would it not be better if they just trapped the carbon in more ants?

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As a carbon based life form would it not be better if they just trapped the carbon in more ants?

No, as most dead/dying ants are brought to the surface of the colony and dumped outside.

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