ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE

Human Activity Produced 208 New Minerals, Approaching To A New Anthropocene Epoch

Formation of minerals was started by Oxidization more than two billion years ago. About 5,208 materials were listed by the International Mineralogical Association. Now, Robert Hazen from the Carnegie Institution for Science has defined 208 minerals among the list of 5,208 minerals as Human Influenced.

Scientists Have Discovered Earliest Evidence Of Life On Earth

The earliest evidence for life on Earth is graphite found to be a biogenic substance in 3.7 billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks discovered in western Greenland and microbial mat fossils found in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone discovered in Western Australia.

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