How Azolla Changed the Earth

[@staceytroy4052]

your video is soo informative but..please lower the volume of your background music..it is kinda disturbing.thanks👍

[@AtlasPro1]

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 :(

[@staceytroy4052]

there's no need to apologize hehe 😊😊

[@Kuzurinibubu]

@@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! :)

[@yacetube]

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.

[@twilliams2558]

Come along way since then

[@LovesMuzak101]

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!

[@SpazzyMcGee1337]

No one plant should have all that power.

[@niaschim]

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

[@teetehi]

Why do you think the devs nerfed them

[@ieuanhunt552]

We humans are looking at this and are like "hold my beer, this is the Anthropocene Epoch bitches"

[@frederickpalles9778]

Duckweed: Hold my roots

[@Szujhinzu]

The clock's ticking I just count the hours

[@zachfox7771]

do we can call this period Dagobah Earth

[@AtlasPro1]

We definitely should haha

[@wiezyczkowata]

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

[@numega7323]

@@wiezyczkowata we were also Hoth at some point as well.

[@wiezyczkowata]

@@numega7323 you are right!!

[@798Muchoman]

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.

[@edwardadams1024]

this is not at all about oxygen production

[@sMASHsound]

this was a bout carbon sequestration more than the oxygen production

[@kparker2430]

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

[@MrWackozacko]

@@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

[@kparker2430]

@@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.

[@Nutri-Rich-Gardening]

in India people have started azolla farming for high quality cattle feed..

[@tbraghavendran]

Where in our country dude🤔

[@nenefred]

@@tbraghavendran i also use azolla to my chicken to feed them

[@Jartopia]

Fascinating video! I learnt so much and it left me wanting to learn more :)

[@davidtitanium22]

i can feel the improvement in your recent videos from seeing these old videos!

[@beretperson]

"smarter than a plant"? You ask too much of us.

[@negvey]

lowkey been my favorite channel that I just found, getting a really nice intuitive grasp for the natural world!

[@williamlee7672]

Good talk. Less music. You don’t see David Attenborough being over powered by music.

[@Kyle-td6px]

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

[@FusionDeveloper]

The music was used incorrectly in this video. I see in your later videos, you perfected it. Congratulations on improving over time.

[@shaferai]

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.

[@moonbender95]

If we have space to do it...

[@Minecraftian2345432]

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.

[@Lorem_64]

@@Minecraftian2345432 What about 400,000,000 square kilometres in 80 years?

[@Soken50]

@@Lorem_64 so you want to dedicate 80% of the planet to this one plant until 2100, hope you like anaerobic swamps

[@Minecraftian2345432]

@@Lorem_64 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.

[@ammarnapata2193]

Production and the beats be on point on these videos. Keep up the good work

[@Kid_Naps]

And now we're realasing all that trapped CO2 back into the atmosphere!

[@kashutosh9132]

Ohhh exactly

[@fishfish5119]

"Oil"

[@overbeb]

Instead of climate catastrophe we can call it Planet Rainforest 2.0.

[@buzzlaw]

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.

[@duckles426]

@@buzzlaw simplifying to make it easier for people to understand the basics of climate change isn't silly, it's useful.

[@nin10dorox]

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.

[@AtlasPro1]

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!

[@jollyjokress3852]

The Azolla Event and how it came to be: *extremely interesting*

[@jacobchisausky9652]

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

[@Classic--]

agree

[@riotintheair]

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.

[@koantao8321]

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?

[@Classic--]

@@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

[@riotintheair]

​@@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.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

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.

[@deismaccountant]

If only it was more feasible to turn it into fuel.

[@jesusjoseph1899]

It's a fern

[@conornorris6815]

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

[@florinadrian5174]

Caspian sea, which is basically a brackish lake, would be even more suitable, especially the north side where the salinity is even lower.

[@brodywilson7892]

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

[@florinadrian5174]

@@brodywilson7892 What about the big African lakes: Victoria, Tanganika, Malawi etc? They should be warm enough.

[@constantinandrei6525]

@@florinadrian5174 But not salty. Mediterranean Sea is the perfect candidate.

[@finding_aether]

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.

[@FantasticExplorers]

OMG!!! I've followed you for a hot minute! HOW HAVE I NEVER SEEN TGIS VIDEO??? AWESOME VID!!! (As always!)

[@8Jory]

Still one of my favourite videos you've ever made. Cant put my finger on why though.

[@viniciusbarros3710]

We should try to act smarter than a plant. That gave me goosebumps.

[@captainsinclair7954]

That settles it. We need to start growing Azolla as the “ultimate oxygen producer” plant.

[@WhatIsMisophonia]

Well, it is a popular aquarium plant :P

[@BossOfAllTrades]

@@WhatIsMisophonia I guess, but in an aquarium its not at its full potiential, it helps keep the tank clean though

[@kingdmind]

Azolla: _I’m not like other ferns~_

[@anthonywade8880]

Great video. Thank you.

[@Dlstufguy2]

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

[@drunkalfuzzyness]

This was fascinating. Thanks for making this!

[@sikamikan]

Great video. I had been watching a lot of your videos these days, thanks for sharing

[@RocksFan]

Each country's politician should watch this content. Btw, Love from India 💝

[@rogerwilco2]

The video is interesting, but the music is loud and annoying. I would find it better without music.

[@sMASHsound]

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.

[@Rall707]

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.

[@crackedemerald4930]

One thing you probably should have mentioned is while the land was lush and green, the oceans where acid and dead

[@davesulphate4497]

@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

[@swirvinbirds1971]

@@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.

[@davesulphate4497]

@@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.

[@codeisawesome369]

And what was the floor? Was it lava?

[@DAMITH250]

Nice informative Video 👍👍👍 And the message at last is 👌👌👌

[@richardportelli1983]

Wow amazing stuff, you would be a good science teacher!

[@AtlasPro1]

Thank you! I like to think I'm a kind of science teacher :)

[@AASony]

@@AtlasPro1 yes you are, and a great one! Thank you!

[@mhchoudhurymd]

Most important and the Best educational video among many but for the noxious music . Thanks for the info. I will share it.

[@derlinclaire1778]

Azolla is an aquatic fern.Sometimes called Water Fern,or Mosquito Fern.

[@DerFilc]

music is chill

[@apr670]

Great video 👏, thanks for sharing this

[@koantao8321]

Excellent video!!!

[@sammuelle77]

Love your videos. Great information about current day climate change and especially liked learning about the Azolla

[@TheRlhaugan]

This is the single best add for encouraging global warming.

[@michaeldmingo1525]

Yes.

[@TrabberShir]

Cyanobacteria are not plants. And it was cyanobacteria that gave the earth an oxygen atmosphere some 2 billion years before plants evolved. We are also pretty sure that animals evolved before non-algal plants by about 100 million years. The first 30 seconds of this video are really inaccurate.

[@tektek1100]

he also mentions that plants use co2 to create energy i'm not sure i should trust what he says after all of this

[@davesulphate4497]

@@tektek1100 Technically plants do use CO2 to create energy... from the chemical potential energy of combustion of sugars ... except that the energy they used to make the sugars also came from the sun... and you can't "make" energy as such. But even then it's not SO wrong to say that they do, it's just non-scientific terminology and not entirely accurate.

[@democratie_et_esprit_critique]

What’s the name of the song track, please?

[@NatureGuy18]

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

[@pjkerrigan20]

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.

[@andnor]

wait for global warming then throw its seeds everywhere?

[@bearcatben4762]

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

[@kashmirha]

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 :)

[@marcoscuradofilho8224]

Could you bring any references? Awesome topic by the way!

[@thalesdraconis]

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.

[@BossOfAllTrades]

Anabena is a very common cyanobacteria it is found in terrestrial soil due to low water requirements and nitrogen fixation

[@omermagen824]

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[@YathishShamaraj]

cant we try to do the same thing again? as it, set up infrastructure in the ocean that is ieal for Azolla to grow?... i am sure we can create GMO Azolla to make it a Carbon devouring monster, that way it wont take 800,000 years, probably just 80 years... Boss.. please make a new video exploring this concept please..

[@zuriagaski8912]

Thank you! I like your videos without music in the background, I find it distracting. Maybe something instrumental without a drumbeat?

[@2stepjoey]

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.

[@marcusmilton1]

This video deserves way more views

[@alfonsoglz9418]

Good information and good music.

[@rasmus619]

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.

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

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.

[@rasmus619]

@@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.

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

@@rasmus619 I meat in the arctic circle but you get my point and I think he meant glaciers too

[@jan-seli]

I think the word you're looking for in your description is "industrious"

[@dvtt]

Wow video quality has improved dramatically

[@virginialacar3218]

Very informative video.Thank you very much!!!

[@AtlasPro1]

glad you enjoyed :)

[@maldito_sudaka]

although it's hard to understand what you say, GREAT video and very interesting topic indeed.

[@kensvideos1]

Hay do you think you can engineer a package to grow azolla in a small pond? Dose it still exist?

[@androth1502]

this is the best argument to allow global warming to happen that i've heard thus far. let's get back to jungle earth, with one year round global season and no ice anywhere. i'll take that. lose a few coastal cities? so what. so much more pristine land will open up.

[@JowenbraMC]

It would be really, really hot, though. 30C average, which is 86F. Compare that to modern temperature averages of around 16C (61F) and the equatorial regions would probably be totally uninhabitable by humans without extensive indoor climate-controlled complexes. Remember, average does not mean it is spread evenly, it is just the mean temperature. Cold climates would be virtually non-existent, and the expansive temperate regions that humans love would shrink dramatically and be confined near the poles. Pretty much everywhere would be uncomfortably hot.

[@overbeb]

no... just, no.

[@Betterhose]

Others during this video: Learning something new and interesting Me during the video: 🕺 seated dancing

[@Kathkere]

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.

[@bartolomeoyarrow1327]

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!

[@jos-1-stranac-u-noci]

@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?

[@Chris-ut6eq]

suggest redoing this video with your current format and production value. Plus you can update your thoughts on this plant matter.

[@n1mbusmusic606]

we should def use the gulf of Mexico to do drawdown for sure. intentional azalea bloom!

[@vikurti]

Appreciate a lot the effort of giving all this information except for the music which is a nuisance.

[@LilyyyoftheRose]

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.

[@jesusjoseph1899]

This video proves that we all should have fishtanks to keep azolla

[@ShreyaanSeth]

just found this channel a few days ago and I fuckin love itt

[@grapesurgeon5546]

Music track name?

[@RoderickBedingfield]

Another vote for re-editing the video to remove the noxious background music

[@anaswasfisabir]

Crazy, can you eat azolla? And if so, is it healthy?

[@mrdProf42]

This might be interesting, but don't know. Leaving at 01:06 because of horrid, unnecessary music.

[@niemerow1953]

Ditto. Another vote for re-editing the video to remove the noxious background music.

[@samarkand1585]

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?

[@DinoSuperCool]

it is, just takes a while www.ocean-sci.net/10/693/2014/os-10-693-2014.pdf

[@Thumbsupurbum]

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.

[@FrankCunhaIII]

I’m a fan and addict to this channel but only made it 2-1/2 minutes into presentation due to background music

[@nathanSullivan-n5y]

I love yòur vids

[@horstboellinger6880]

thanks, I learned a thing today.

[@gregoryvasilyev9675]

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...

[@slavj]

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.

[@BossOfAllTrades]

Is it nessecarily a disaster

[@istvansipos9940]

wow! that's fast. you could hear this plant grow

[@rithikagarwal4202]

How much azola is required for making us co2 neutral

[@lonestarr1490]

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.

[@cmurderfrumpbottoniv8647]

About 3.50

[@JordanBeagle]

The code it was running worked incredibly in those conditions

[@aldrichibia8302]

I can't clearly understand what he's saying cause of the background music

[@panosmosproductions3230]

Even tidy. People are growing palm trees in temperate climates . Even in temperate stepps like in Idaho.

[@kimghanson]

No need to preach. Your facts are marvelous and need no elaboration or opinion.

[@misscelinateloexplica]

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.

[@benoverflow7323]

Amazing contents!!

[@dannycarbona]

Of course it can be understated. You mean it can't be overstated.

[@HLGFiberOptics]

You need to re-edit the sound.

[@colbymmorrow]

PLEASE please please please please reedit this it is soooo good but you sound way better in other videos and the background music is too loud. Your great but please redo this so I can tell lots of people about it and they can learn as well. Way to go 👏

[@gregmattson2238]

700 million? where are you getting that number. AFAICT the real numbers are 2.7+ billion years for cyanobacteria (the first 'plants') and ~500 million for colonization of land.

[@MJ-ye7dd]

This was well done

[@moeabdullah6434]

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

[@martonmakhult3416]

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.

[@AZ-if2mj]

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.

[@martonmakhult3416]

@@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.

[@leofstanric2078]

Why spend time and effort on the commentary when it can’t be clearly heard!!!?