Everyone Talks About Global Warming, but Global Worming?
On the March 23, 2007 “Talk of the Nation,” broacast Peter M. Groffman, senior scientist at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., explains why worms might not be your garden’s best friend.
He discusses how most worms in the northern part of the United States were made extinct by the last ice age and how invasive species now have entered forest lands. This invasion of worms is threatening forests in the Northeast and Midwest.
He goes on to mention that because the worms are impact the soil quality, that they may be contributing to global warming.
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