Oxygen spike may have caused ice age
Friday, May 8, 2009 - 12:28
in Earth & Climate
COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 8 (UPI) -- Earth's earliest ice age could have been caused by an atmospheric rise in oxygen reacting with methane, a greenhouse gas, a geologist in Maryland said.
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