{"id":133795,"date":"2022-01-09T05:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T13:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/new-research-reveals-more-hostile-conditions-on-earth-as-life-evolved"},"modified":"2022-01-09T05:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T13:22:17","slug":"new-research-reveals-more-hostile-conditions-on-earth-as-life-evolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/new-research-reveals-more-hostile-conditions-on-earth-as-life-evolved","title":{"rendered":"New Research Reveals More Hostile Conditions on Earth As Life Evolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-reveals-more-hostile-conditions-on-earth-as-life-evolved.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During long portions of the past 2.4 billion years, the Earth may have been more inhospitable to life than scientists previously thought, according to new computer simulations.<\/p>\n<p>Using a state-of-the-art climate model, researchers now believe the level of ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching the Earth\u2019s surface could have been underestimated, with UV levels being up to ten times higher.<\/p>\n<p>UV radiation is emitted by the sun and can damage and destroy biologically important molecules such as proteins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During long portions of the past 2.4 billion years, the Earth may have been more inhospitable to life than scientists previously thought, according to new computer simulations. Using a state-of-the-art climate model, researchers now believe the level of ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching the Earth\u2019s surface could have been underestimated, with UV levels being up to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}