{"599885":{"#nid":"599885","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ancient microbes caused Earth\u2019s first ever global warming","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESome 4.5 billion years ago, the sun wasn\u0026#39;t as bright and life-sustaining as it is today. That should have meant a planetary deep freeze, but primitive photosynthetic microbes may have kept things warm and toasty enough with their methane emissions to help simple organisms stay alive on the early Earth. That\u0026#39;s the subject of new \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-017-0031-2\u0022\u003Eresearch\u003C\/a\u003E from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/reinhard-dr-chris\u0022\u003EChris Reinhard\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/ozaki-dr-kazumi\u0022\u003EKazumi Ozaki\u003C\/a\u003E with the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E. Reinhard is an assistant professor while Ozaki is a postdoctoral fellow.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2017-12-13 21:41:02","changed_gmt":"2017-12-13 21:41:52","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2156016-ancient-microbes-caused-earths-first-ever-global-warming\/","dateline":{"date":"2017-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-12-11T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591077":{"id":"591077","type":"image","title":"Chris Reinhard ","body":null,"created":"1493392354","gmt_created":"2017-04-28 15:12:34","changed":"1493392354","gmt_changed":"2017-04-28 15:12:34","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225220","name":"Chris Reinhard .jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Chris%20Reinhard%20.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Chris%20Reinhard%20.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":10594,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Chris%20Reinhard%20.jpg?itok=P-u1CtvC"}},"599751":{"id":"599751","type":"image","title":"Kazumi Ozaki doing geological field work","body":null,"created":"1513008279","gmt_created":"2017-12-11 16:04:39","changed":"1513008279","gmt_changed":"2017-12-11 16:04:39","alt":"","file":{"fid":"228643","name":"IMG_7534.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_7534.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_7534.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":937312,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_7534.JPG?itok=uPerMJij"}}},"media_ids":["591077","599751"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"170504","name":"Chris Reinhard"},{"id":"176463","name":"Kazumi Ozaki"},{"id":"18531","name":"photosynthesis"},{"id":"7572","name":"microbes"},{"id":"12661","name":"Early Earth"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}