a doctoral student in Earth and planetary sciences at Yale and first and corresponding author of the new study. Indeed, scientists have long wondered why land plants did not emerge on Earth until 450 ...
Indeed, scientists have long wondered why land plants did not emerge on Earth until 450 million years ago, even though their progenitors, cyanobacteria, had been in existence for 2.7 billion years.
The Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization studies the long-term interaction between cities (and their non-urban counterparts), land use, and the Earth system. The PANTROPOCENE project ...