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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Early Plants May Have Caused Massive Glaciation
Early Plants May Have Caused Massive Glaciation: sciencehabit writes with this excerpt from Science: "The first plants to colonize land didn't merely supply a dash of green to a drab landscape. They dramatically accelerated the natural breakdown of exposed rocks, according to a new study, drawing so much planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere that they sent Earth's climate spiraling into a major ice age."
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