About 2.4 billion years ago, a major event called the Great Oxidation Event (GOE ... around a million times less oxygen than there is today.” Without an ozone layer, Earth’s surface will ...

The findings about the future of Earth's atmosphere have been shared by researchers from Toho University and the Georgia ...

Earth's oxygen levels are predicted to plummet within a billion years due to the Sun's increasing brightness, rendering the planet uninhabitable for most complex life. This challenges assumptions ...

It suggests that certain bacteria were already exploiting oxygen over 3 billion years ago, long before the Great Oxidation that transformed Earth's atmosphere. Until now, scientists believed that ...