Ants help reduce carbon in the atmosphere; can we learn from what they do?

Recent research findings show that ants help promote global cooling and  "Given that ants underwent a great diversification and biomass expansion over the Cenozoic, a speculative implication of this research is that ant enhancement of Ca-Mg silicate dissolution might have been an influence on Cenozoic cooling."

If we can discover how ants do this and use these processes, we may be able to significantly impact the reduction of carbon in the atmosphere, and the resulting global climate changes.

See below for the article abstract:

http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/early/2014/07/14/G35825.1              

A recent news article summarizes the paper in this way:

"... ants radically accelerate the breakdown of some important minerals into chemicals that suck carbon dioxide—a byproduct of burning fossil fuels—out of the atmosphere to form new rocks. "

http://www.geosociety.org/news/pr/2014/14-47.htm             

A recent news article summarizes the paper in this way:

"... ants radically accelerate the breakdown of some important minerals into chemicals that suck carbon dioxide—a byproduct of burning fossil fuels—out of the atmosphere to form new rocks. "

http://online.wsj.com/articles/can-ants-cool-the-world-1408145883?KEYWORDS=ants