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Scientists untangle interactions between the Earth's early life forms and the environment over 500 million years
At the start of the Phanerozoic, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were high, and oxygen levels were low. Such a condition would be difficult for many modern organisms to thrive. But ocean ...
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Earth’s global temperature has drastically changed over the last 500 million years
emphasizing the strong relationship between Earth's temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The Phanerozoic Eon ...
Webb Telescope Captures First Direct Evidence of Carbon Dioxide on an Exoplanet
In 2022, the Webb telescope detected unequivocal evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called ...
JWST captures its first direct images of carbon dioxide outside solar system
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...