{"id":245668,"date":"2026-10-19T22:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/earths-core-may-have-been-leaking-hydrogen-for-billions-of-years"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:57:11","slug":"earths-core-may-have-been-leaking-hydrogen-for-billions-of-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/earths-core-may-have-been-leaking-hydrogen-for-billions-of-years","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s core may have been leaking hydrogen for billions of years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-core-may-have-been-leaking-hydrogen-for-billions-of-years3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Earth formed billions of years ago, its metallic core was wrapped in a global ocean of molten rock, which eventually cooled and crystallized to form the mantle. Today, when deep-rooted mantle plumes rise toward the surface and produce volcanic eruptions, the resulting lava can contain hydrogen from deep inside the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Hydrogen comes in two stable forms, standard light hydrogen and a heavier version called deuterium. While most volcanic rocks have relatively normal hydrogen isotope ratios, some lavas associated with deep mantle plumes contain an unusually low proportion of deuterium.<\/p>\n<p>That rare mix has provoked a major debate: Did this low-deuterium signature form long ago as the early magma ocean froze, or does it come from hydrogen leaking out of Earth\u2019s metallic core?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Earth formed billions of years ago, its metallic core was wrapped in a global ocean of molten rock, which eventually cooled and crystallized to form the mantle. Today, when deep-rooted mantle plumes rise toward the surface and produce volcanic eruptions, the resulting lava can contain hydrogen from deep inside the planet. Hydrogen comes in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245668","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=245668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}