We inherited the greatest nation in the history of the Earth.
"Methane hydrate was a key cause of the global warming that led to one of the largest extinctions in the earth's history, " Ryo Matsumoto, a professor at the University of Tokyo who has spent 20 years researching the subject, told Bloomberg in December.
The team also hopes to take samples of mud from the bottom of the lake, to better understand the geological history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and Earth's past climate.
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"Nobody in the history of mankind has ever experienced the Earth as a pale, insignificant blue dot in the sky, " he said.
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But that is a minor quibble about what is otherwise a fascinating and highly readable history of one of the most exotic islands on earth.
Juramaia's appearance in the Jurassic Period of Earth history would appear to corroborate what the genetics has been saying.
"If more data confirm Eros is primordial, Eros will be a link between the chondrite meteorites found on Earth and the history of the solar system's formation, " McCoy said.
But with a planetary history of over four billion years, the Earth has likely suffered the slings and arrows of exploding stars more than once in past eons.
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In the half century since Cloud and Barghoorn began scouring the globe for similar sites, the history of life on Earth has been traced back nearly three and a half billion years.
"The issues at stake are greater than any decisions made in human history, " Tom Picken of Friends of the Earth International told CNN.
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Perhaps in some future generation, when the fear of losing everything or the belief that bad things happen for no reason at all have all been relegated to the scrap heap of history, abundance will be the natural experience on Earth as people embrace their own perception that good fortune flows easily when trust rather than fear is the unwavering belief.
However, taking a long view, extinction has been part of the natural order of things throughout Earth's history.
By that stage, he warns, runaway global warming would have become an unstoppable "deadly game of dominoes", ultimately leading to further rises that, based on studies of previous cases of similar climate change in the earth's paleontological history, would spell the near-certain extinction of almost all life on the planet.
It is the last one he wishes to explore, and he does so in a clever way by comparing the history of computers to evolution on Earth.
There are all sorts of organisms that have evolved on the earth in its long, long four billion years of history.
Three weeks from now this will become the largest city on earth, the largest single-purpose gathering of humanity in history.
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What perplexes me is why some seem to think that this is an earth shattering day in the history of retail brokerage.
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Of course, during most of that 4.5 billion year history, the earth was not populated by intelligent life -- human beings who might have noticed the two events happening on the same day.
It would have spanned millions years of history, from the Precambrian Era when land was barren and devoid of life to the age when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
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Ranging from rugged uplands, lakes and forests through to gently rolling drumlins, the landscapes of the Global Geopark represent a complex Earth history dating back as far as 650 million years.
Although F1 is the most popular, technologically advanced, and richest form of racing on earth, the series has had a troubled history on these shores.
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On Earth, geologists study layers of rock to determine the history of our planet.
Now, it's true that climates have been changing throughout Earth's history, but climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck at the University of Arizona at Tucson says this time the change will be fundamentally different from anything that's come before.
The test was designed to simulate the type of impact that would have been frequent during Earth's early history, some four billion years ago, when rocky, icy debris in our Solar System accumulated to form planets.
Because there is no other nation on earth with the capacity that we have by virtue of our principles, our history, our beliefs, our values, our resources, and our freedom, that can lead.
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Though it has been estimated that in Earth's early history only a few percent of comets or asteroids arrived at low enough angles, the bombardment would have been heavy enough to deliver a significant amount of intact organic material and water, Blank said.
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