The Great Oxidation Event took place 2.4 billion years ago when certain bacteria started releasing a large quantity of oxygen ...

A new study reveals that the aerobic nitrogen cycle in the ocean may have occurred about 100 million years before oxygen began to significantly accumulate in the atmosphere, based on nitrogen isotope ...

While Earth's slowdown is not noticeable on human timescales, it's enough to work significant changes over eons. One of those ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new way to identify genetic changes that help tiny oxygen-producing microbes survive in extreme ...

In the new paper, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers around the globe are urging ... at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, on why ocean oxygen should become ...

These virtual species were able to respond to environmental changes of the end-Permian era based on their ability to survive alterations in temperature and oxygen availability. In this way ...

Some have taken it to mean that we’re at risk of jeopardizing the world’s oxygen supply. “We need O2 to survive!” former astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted last week. However, the figure ...

“In general, oxygen declines in the marine environment – or any environment ... d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales and Institut de Physique du Globe, Marilaure Grégoire of the ...

The researchers believe H. salminicola adapted this way due to its habitat, which was an anaerobic environment where oxygen is scarce or completely absent.