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Ancient bugs made own fertiliser
Monday, 16 July 2001
lightning
Making nitrate - bugs took over where lightning left off.
Bacteria that lived on Earth two billion years ago produced their own nitrogen "fertiliser" in order to survive.
That's the suggestion of new report revealing a nitrogen crisis early in our planet's history may have triggered a critical evolutionary leap.
"Our results indicate that a couple of billion years ago, life had to invent a way to make its own nitrogen fertiliser because the amount being produced by lightning dropped to almost zero,"
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News in Science - Ancient bugs made own fertiliser - 16/07/2001
I have seen reports of (above cloud) lightening 5 miles high and wide in the US mid west.
What does that do to nitrogen levels?
