Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Earliest ice-age due to rise of oxygen levels

Earth's earliest ice age may have been due to the rise of oxygen in the atmosphere, which consumed greenhouse gases and chilled the earth. The sudden increase broadly coincided with physical evidence of glacial debris.
 
The Hindu, 21st May 2009

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