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Ancient microbes caused Earth’s first ever global warming

11 December 2017

Over 3 billion years ago, the sun was faint so our planet should have been a snowball. But it wasn’t – and microorganisms may have been what kept it warm

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Ancient microbes caused Earth’s first ever global warming

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