Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have gotten progressively longer as a result. While Earth's slowdown is not ...

About 2.5 billion years ago, free oxygen, or O 2, first started to accumulate to meaningful levels in Earth's atmosphere, setting the stage for the rise of complex life on our evolving planet.

The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) at ~2.4–2.3 Ga and the Neoproterozoic Oxidation Event (NOE) at ~0.8–0.54 Ga, were transformative events that catalyzed the development of global geological, geochemical ...

Japan's hot springs reveal how Earth's organisms survived the 'Great Oxidation Event' 2.3 billion years ago: Study A team from the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo analyzed certain hot springs in ...

Using synchrotron techniques, scientists have unveiled important information on The Great Oxidation Event by studying apatite inclusions in zircon crystals from old magmas. Using synchrotron ...

Oxygen levels in the Earth's atmosphere are likely to have 'fluctuated wildly' one billion years ago, creating conditions that could have accelerated?the development of early animal life, according to ...

Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have gotten progressively longer as a result. While Earth's slowdown is not ...