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Billion-year-old lake deposit yields clues to Earth’s historic biosphere
A pattern of historic oxygen, teased out of a 1.Four-billion-year-old evaporative lake deposit in Ontario, offers recent proof of what the Earth’s environment and biosphere have been like through the interval main as much as the emergence of animal life. … Continue reading
Less life: Limited phosphorus recycling suppressed early Earth’s biosphere
The amount of biomass — life — in Earth’s ancient oceans may have been limited due to low recycling of the key nutrient phosphorus, according to new research. Geology News — ScienceDaily
Regionally strong feedbacks between the atmosphere and terrestrial biosphere
Nature Geoscience 10, 410 (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo2957 Authors: Julia K. Green, Alexandra G. Konings, Seyed Hamed Alemohammad, Joseph Berry, Dara Entekhabi, Jana Kolassa, Jung-Eun Lee & Pierre Gentine Nature Geoscience – Issue – nature.com science feeds
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Methane-munching microbes living in the deep biosphere for 400 million years: An analogue for extra-terrestrial life
It is becoming more and more appreciated that a major part of the biologic activity is not going on at the ground surface, but is hidden underneath the soil down to depths of several kilometres in an environment coined the … Continue reading
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