{"id":203333,"date":"2025-01-08T02:40:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T08:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/earths-air-war-explaining-the-delayed-rise-of-plants-and-animals-on-land"},"modified":"2025-01-08T02:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T08:40:25","slug":"earths-air-war-explaining-the-delayed-rise-of-plants-and-animals-on-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/earths-air-war-explaining-the-delayed-rise-of-plants-and-animals-on-land","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s air war: Explaining the delayed rise of plants and animals on land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CYCgx6N0dYc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Evolution of the iodine cycle and the late stabilization of the Earth\u2019s ozone layer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas\">https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer bird song, and the colors of fall foliage, you have the stabilization of the ozone layer to thank for it. Located in the stratosphere, where it shields Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation, the ozone layer plays a key role in preserving the planet\u2019s biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>Now we may have a better idea of why that took so long\u2014more than 2 billion years\u2014to happen.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new, Yale-led study, Earth\u2019s early atmosphere hosted a battle royale between iodine and oxygen\u2014effectively delaying the creation of a stable <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ozone+layer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ozone layer<\/a> that would shield <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/complex+life\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">complex life<\/a> from much of the sun\u2019s ultraviolet radiation (UVR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evolution of the iodine cycle and the late stabilization of the Earth\u2019s ozone layer https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas. If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer bird song, and the colors of fall foliage, you have the stabilization of the ozone layer to thank for it. Located in the stratosphere, where it shields Earth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203333","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}