Living Waters: Emphasising the need to protect life's breath on this planet
A virus has caused us to scramble for oxygen but our chokehold on the environment is slowly strangling the very waters that breathe life into us. The virus is a timely reminder: We are merely consumers, not producers of life's breath on this planet
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
A fisheye view of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Australia
The earliest known photosynthesising marine fossil we have record of goes back 3.5 billion years. The ocean was producing oxygen for billions of years before that. Early in our planet’s history, the atmosphere had almost no oxygen. Oxygen generated as a byproduct by photosynthesising microbes eventually built up in the atmosphere, drastically changing our planet’s environment and the history of life in the process.
