Researchers use models to understand how Earth's atmosphere will be in the coming billion years, and the results indicate it ...

A recent studypublished in Nature Geoscienceexplores the future of Earth’s atmosphere, revealing that a dramatic decline in ...

It’s one of the earliest things you learn in elementary school science class—Earth’s life-sustaining ... explanation of the ocean’s dark oxygen production.” The existence and possible ...

"It's possible that a similar type of competition between microbes contributed to the delay in oxygen production on the early Earth," Klatt explained. To demonstrate this hypothesis, the team ...

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Conventionally, the rise of oxygen is seen as life triumphantly terraforming a passive planet. But we’re learning now that Earth was an ... So the production of oxygen-eating gases dropped ...

These polymetallic nodules are rich in valuable metals such as nickel, copper, cobalt, manganese and rare earth elements ... of the ocean's dark oxygen production." This discovery that the ...

Scientists know that biological oxygen molecule production left a big mark on Earth starting about 2.4 billion years ago, after what is often called the Great Oxidation Event. But what came before?

If humanity is ever to spread out into the Solar System, we're going to need to find a way to put fuel into rockets somewhere other than the cozy confines of a launchpad on Earth. One option for ...

"It's possible that a similar type of competition between microbes contributed to the delay in oxygen production on the early Earth," Klatt explained. To demonstrate this hypothesis, the team ...