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New source of global nitrogen discovered

April 6, 2018

A sample of 2-billion-year-old salt (pink-white recrystallized halite) with embedded fragments of calcium sulfate from a geological drill core in Russian Karelia.

Two-billion-year-old salt rock reveals rise of oxygen in ancient atmosphere

March 24, 2018

Primordial oceans had oxygen 250 million years before the atmosphere

January 25, 2018

Rock layers in the Pongola Basin, South Africa.

World’s oldest known oxygen oasis discovered

January 19, 2018

Changes in Earth’s crust caused oxygen to fill the atmosphere

September 20, 2017

Early Earth had a hazy, methane-filled atmosphere

March 14, 2017

Study opens new questions on how the atmosphere and oceans formed

March 1, 2017

Fossil fuel formation: Key to atmosphere’s oxygen?

December 31, 2016

Earth’s ‘technosphere’ now weighs 30 trillion tons

December 2, 2016

Scientists probe underground depths of Earth’s carbon cycle

November 9, 2016

Pollution emitted near equator has biggest impact on global ozone

November 7, 2016

Megadrought risks in southwest U.S. soar as atmosphere warms

October 10, 2016

Ice cores reveal a slow decline in atmospheric oxygen over the...

October 3, 2016

Soil will absorb less atmospheric carbon than expected this century, study...

September 23, 2016

Humble moss helped create our oxygen-rich atmosphere

August 16, 2016

Buried oxygen rose to the occasion as Earth’s early atmosphere formed

August 2, 2016

Oldest rocks in Australia unlock secrets of the atmosphere

June 27, 2016

Oxygen atmosphere recipe = tectonics + continents + life

May 17, 2016

Study pinpoints timing of oxygen’s first appearance in Earth’s atmosphere

May 16, 2016

Cosmic dust reveals Earth’s ancient atmosphere

May 12, 2016

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Unprecedented ice loss in Russian ice cap

September 20, 2018

Southern California’s tectonic plates revealed in detail

October 9, 2011

Unique diamond impurities indicate water deep in Earth’s mantle

March 11, 2018

Atmospheric boundary layer exacerbated mega heat waves

April 22, 2014

Biochemical ‘fossil’ shows how life may have emerged without phosphate

March 2, 2017

Steep rise of the Bernese Alps

March 24, 2017

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Flow in the asthenosphere drags tectonic plates along

Scientists find new evidences of the megaflood that ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the eastern Mediterranean

Mountain erosion may add CO2 to the atmosphere