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A Geochemical History of Life on Earth Episodes

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    5. The Anthropocene

    Could human engineering stabilise the Earth's climate and chemistry in the long term?

  2. 4. The great chemistry experiment

    What can the last 66 million years teach us about the consequences of climate change?

  3. 3. A series of unfortunate events

    How a chemical element may have held evolution back for a billion years

  4. 2. When bacteria ruled the world

    How two of the most important developments in our planet's evolution occurred

  5. 1. In the beginning

    How did the continuous chemical reaction that we call "life" first begin?