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The mystery of atmospheric oxygen

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Readily available O2 is vital to life as we know it. James Kasting looks at how and when the first whiffs of oxygen began to reach the Earth's atmosphere.

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Kasting, J. The mystery of atmospheric oxygen. Nature Geosci 6, 9–10 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1684

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