{"id":26591,"date":"2020-02-14T22:44:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T11:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26591"},"modified":"2020-02-14T22:44:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T11:44:25","slug":"nasa-video-shows-how-sahara-dust-fertilizes-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26591","title":{"rendered":"NASA video shows how Sahara dust fertilizes the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sahara-fertiliza-amazonia.jpg\" alt=\"Sahara Fertilizes Amazon\" class=\"wp-image-26592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sahara-fertiliza-amazonia.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Sahara-fertiliza-amazonia-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is estimated that approximately 182,000 tons of Sahara dust cross across the Atlantic Ocean to reach America. Of this total, about 27.7 million tons of dust precipitate each year in the Amazon basin (Tom: How you get 27.7 million tons out of 182,000 tons beats me.), 0.08% corresponds to phosphorus (an important nutrient for plants), according to researchers at the University of Maryland (USA), which It is equivalent to 22,000 tons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This amount of phosphorus, according to the study, is sufficient to meet the nutrient needs that the Amazon rainforest lost through heavy rains and floods in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-ecoinventos\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"6wA5r5oJCG\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ecoinventos.com\/video-de-la-nasa-muestra-como-el-polvo-del-sahara-fertiliza-la-amazonia\/\">V\u00eddeo de la NASA muestra c\u00f3mo el polvo del Sahara fertiliza la Amazonia<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u00abV\u00eddeo de la NASA muestra c\u00f3mo el polvo del Sahara fertiliza la Amazonia\u00bb \u2014 EcoInventos\" src=\"https:\/\/ecoinventos.com\/video-de-la-nasa-muestra-como-el-polvo-del-sahara-fertiliza-la-amazonia\/embed\/#?secret=DUYHgghr4y#?secret=6wA5r5oJCG\" data-secret=\"6wA5r5oJCG\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is estimated that approximately 182,000 tons of Sahara dust cross across the Atlantic Ocean to reach America. Of this total, about 27.7 million tons of dust precipitate each year in the Amazon basin (Tom: How you get 27.7 million tons out of 182,000 tons beats me.), 0.08% corresponds to phosphorus (an important nutrient for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26591\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NASA video shows how Sahara dust fertilizes the Amazon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26594,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26591\/revisions\/26594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}