Tiny mineral inclusions picture for the first time oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere and changed the composition of the mantle. Credit: Hugo Moreira / Nature Geoscience

New research reveals Earth’s ancient ‘breath’

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Enhanced chemical weathering: A solution to the climate crisis?

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Drops of seawater contain traces of an ancient world

Oxidised apatite inclusions. Credit: Dr Hugo Moreira

New research reveals connection between Earth’s atmospheric changes and mantle chemistry

Spectacular rainbow obsidian blade

The World’s Rarest and Most Expensive Types of Obsidian

Fossils have been found of several types of abelisaur showing the diversity of dinosaurs in Morocco at the end of the Cretaceous period. (Credit: Andrey Atuchin)

Newly discovered Fossils of “primitive cousins of T rex” shed light...

Plots of mineral modal abundance and the weight percentage of mineral-bound water (blue lines) for (a) metabasaltic and (b) metasedimentary rocks from the modern Cocos plate at 1.3 GPa and over the range of temperatures along the flat slab top beneath Guerrero.

Metasomatism and Slow Slip: Talc may make Mexico’s subduction zone more...

Dalian Coherent Light Source revealing vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of sulfur dioxide as an important prebiotic-O2 source. Credit: Yuan Kaijun

A possible trigger for Earth’s great oxidation event

A reconstruction of an Australian pterosaur

107-million-year-old pterosaur bones discovered in Australia

Image: Jorge Gonzalez This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

New dino, ‘Iani smithi,’ was face of a changing planet

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