Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

The recent paper's case for green oceans in the Archaean eon starts with an observation: waters around the Japanese volcanic ...

During the Proterozoic era, oxygen produced by photosynthesizing bacteria collects in the oceans and then in the atmosphere ... all that we have learned about evolution from the fossil record ...

In the waters off Iwo Jima, a volcanic island in Japan’s Satsuma archipelago, the sea has a distinct green tint. It’s not ...

But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst of evolution. 3 min read The Cambrian ... It may be that oxygen in the atmosphere, thanks to emissions from photosynthesizing ...

Productivity fuels life in the ocean, drives its chemical cycles, and lowers atmospheric carbon dioxide ... M. M. The co-evolution of phytoplankton and trace element cycles in the oceans.

A simulation on the origin and evolution of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has been conducted by a PKU research team ...

About 700 million years ago, massive glaciers crept across the Earth's surface toward an ice-covered sea, scraping the ground beneath them. They bulldozed rocks from the Earth's crust and released ...

The study sheds light on life during the Great Oxidation Event, a pivotal time roughly 2.4 billion years ago when cyanobacteria began performing oxygenic photosynthesis. By harnessing sunlight to ...

In fact, before some fossil discoveries were made late in the 20th century, it was considered unknowable ... Great oceans form Water condenses in the cooling atmosphere, and heavy rains pour ...

Productivity fuels life in the ocean, drives its chemical cycles, and lowers atmospheric carbon dioxide. Nutrient uptake and export interact with circulation to yield distinct ocean regimes.