Computer model shows ancient Earth with an atmosphere 70 percent carbon dioxide

Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 10:00 in Earth & Climate

A team of researchers from the University of Washington has found evidence that the Earth's atmosphere approximately 2.7 billion years ago might have been up to 70 percent carbon dioxide. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes their study of micrometeorites and what they learned from them.

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