Tag: oxygen


  • Forests on Land Sparked Deep-Sea Life Worldwide

    Forests on Land Sparked Deep-Sea Life Worldwide

    When forests reshaped the oceans About 400 million years ago, Earth’s land was beginning to resemble a green canopy of complex forests. For the oceans, this terrestrial transformation mattered profoundly. A new wave of research suggests that as forests expanded and thrived on land, they pumped more oxygen into the atmosphere. That oxygen didn’t stay…