Now an international research team is proposing that increasing day length on the early Earth—the spinning of the young planet gradually slowed over time, making the days longer—may have boosted the amount of oxygen released by photosynthetic cyanobacteria, thereby shaping the timing of Earth’s oxygenation.


Read more at Michigan News https://news.umich.edu/lake-huron-sinkhole-surprise-the-rise-of-oxygen-on-early-earth-linked-to-changing-planetary-rotation-rate/


Klatt et al can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00784-3

 

Other mentions:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/totally-new-idea-suggests-longer-days-early-earth-set-stage-complex-life Science, 8-2-21

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/03/world/early-earth-life-oxygen-scn/index.html CNN, 8-3-21

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/earth-slowed-down-and-gave-life-a-chance-nfpmqzt3r The Times of London, 8-3-21

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/08/02/life-earth-did-longer-days-fuel-planets-oxygen-growth/5458097001/ USA Today, 8-2-21

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2021/08/02/the-rise-of-oxygen-on-early-earth-linked-to-changing-daylength/?sh=128a65515498 Forbes, 8-2-21

https://newatlas.com/environment/earth-oxygen-microbe-longer-days/ New Atlas, 8-2-21

https://www.newser.com/story/309308/origins-of-earths-oxygen-longer-days.html Newser, 8-2-21

https://www.zmescience.com/science/earths-rotational-slowdown-oxygen-06473/ ZME Science, 8-2-21

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/climate/long-days-made-oxygen-for-animals-evolve/ Cosmos magazine, 8-3-21

https://www.livescience.com/early-earth-rotation-increase-oxygen.html Live Science, 8-2-21

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/02/six-hour-days-not-muchlife-earth-like-things-slowed/ The Telegraph (UK), 8-2-21

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9852919/New-theory-Earths-longer-days-kick-started-oxygen-growth.html Daily Mail (UK), 8-2-21