[HTML][HTML] Cyanobacteria and biogeochemical cycles through Earth history

P Sánchez-Baracaldo, G Bianchini, JD Wilson… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Cyanobacteria are the only prokaryotes to have evolved oxygenic photosynthesis,
transforming the biology and chemistry of our planet. Genomic and evolutionary studies …

Oxygenation, life, and the planetary system during Earth's middle history: An overview

TW Lyons, CW Diamond, NJ Planavsky, CT Reinhard… - Astrobiology, 2021 - liebertpub.com
The long history of life on Earth has unfolded as a cause-and-effect relationship with the
evolving amount of oxygen (O2) in the oceans and atmosphere. Oxygen deficiency …

Phosphorous recovery through struvite crystallization: Challenges for future design

B Li, I Boiarkina, W Yu, HM Huang, T Munir… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Phosphorous (P) is an essential element for living organisms and is predicted to be depleted
within the next 100 years. Across the world, significant phosphorous losses due to its low …

The rise of algae in Cryogenian oceans and the emergence of animals

JJ Brocks, AJM Jarrett, E Sirantoine, C Hallmann… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The transition from dominant bacterial to eukaryotic marine primary productivity was one of
the most profound ecological revolutions in the Earth's history, reorganizing the distribution …

Phosphorus availability on the early Earth and the impacts of life

CR Walton, S Ewens, JD Coates, RE Blake… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Phosphorus (P) is critical to modern biochemical functions and can control ecosystem
growth. It was presumably important as a reagent in prebiotic chemistry. However, on the …

[HTML][HTML] Renaissance of elemental phosphorus materials: properties, synthesis, and applications in sustainable energy and environment

H Tian, J Wang, G Lai, Y Dou, J Gao, Z Duan… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The polymorphism of phosphorus-based materials has garnered much research interest,
and the variable chemical bonding structures give rise to a variety of micro and …

Timing the evolution of antioxidant enzymes in cyanobacteria

JS Boden, KO Konhauser, LJ Robbins… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The ancestors of cyanobacteria generated Earth's first biogenic molecular oxygen, but how
they dealt with oxidative stress remains unconstrained. Here we investigate when …

Uncovering the Ediacaran phosphorus cycle

MS Dodd, W Shi, C Li, Z Zhang, M Cheng, H Gu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Phosphorus is a limiting nutrient that is thought to control oceanic oxygen levels to a large
extent,–. A possible increase in marine phosphorus concentrations during the Ediacaran …

Adsorption recovery of phosphate from waste streams by Ca/Mg-biochar synthesis from marble waste, calcium-rich sepiolite and bagasse

W Deng, D Zhang, X Zheng, X Ye, X Niu, Z Lin… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, marble waste and calcium-rich sepiolite were employed as Ca and Mg sources,
and the agricultural waste was used as carbon source to synthesize two modified-biochar …

Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history

KO Konhauser, NJ Planavsky, DS Hardisty… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Iron formations (IF) represent an iron-rich rock type that typifies many Archaean and
Proterozoic supracrustal successions and are chemical archives of Precambrian seawater …