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Cyanobacteria and government inaction are threatening the country’s water supply
Cyanobacteria are probably the most numerous creatures to have ever existed on Earth. They’re good for making oxygen but otherwise bad news for most life forms. Through neglect of our water systems ...
Daily Maverick9h
How cyanobacteria and government inaction are threatening the country’s water supply
Cyanobacteria are probably the most numerous creatures to have ever existed on Earth. They’re good for making oxygen but otherwise bad news for most life forms. Through neglect of our water systems ...
Earth's lungs are choking on plastic and smoke—scientists hope to unblock them
A graph I saw in high school appeared to show the Earth breathing. It was a graph that plotted carbon dioxide in the ...
Scientists Reveal a Game-Changer in the Evolution of Life on Earth
A new source of nitrogen has been discovered. Researchers from RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in southwestern Germany ...
Phys.org25d
Simulation reveals ancient Earth had green oceans
They also note that during this time, the world's oceans were larger, which would have made Earth look green from a distance. Over the green-ocean period, the researchers note, the cyanobacteria ...
The Conversation2d
Earth’s lungs are choking on plastic and smoke – scientists hope to unblock them
Cyanobacteria are Earth’s most ancient photosynthesisers. Menary, Fuller and Schillberg say these microscopic organisms could possess useful genes for better sunlight management that might ...
BGR27d
This is how most life on Earth will end
Before the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) around 2.4 billion years ago—when cyanobacteria helped drastically change the amount of oxygen in our oceans and atmosphere—Earth had very little oxygen.
Don't be afraid to dream big, pursue it one step at a time: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla -- set to become the first Indian to go to the International Space Station (ISS) soon -- on Tuesday urged fellow citizens to not be afraid ...
CNN on MSN23d
Glaciers ‘bulldozed’ snowball Earth and changed ocean chemistry, paving the way for complex life, scientists say
Earth’s earliest forms of life, such as microbes, cyanobacteria, sponges and seafloor-dwelling organisms, populated the oceans. After the end of the Neoproterozoic came the rise of more complex life, ...
The Print on MSN9d
How ancient volcanoes infused oxygen into the air we breathe
A University of Tokyo study suggests ancient eruptions enriched oceans with nutrients, causing brief oxygen spikes long ...
Earth.com10d
Earth's oxygen supply may have been kick-started by volcanoes
Scientists found that volcanic eruptions triggered short-lived oxygen spikes before Earth's air became breathable.
Science Daily11d
Are volcanoes behind the oxygen we breathe?
It is widely believed that Earth's atmosphere has been rich in oxygen for about 2.5 billion years due to a relatively rapid increase in microorganisms capable of performing photosynthesis. Researchers ...