Archive for March 27th, 2013

Oxygen-Poor ‘Boring’ Ocean Challenged Evolution of Early Life

A research team led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has filled in a billion-year gap in our understanding of conditions in the early ocean during a critical time in the history of life on Earth. It is now well accepted that appreciable oxygen first accumulated in the atmosphere about 2.4 to 2.3 […]