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Earth’s First Oceans Weren’t Blue: They Were Green

July 25, 2025Updated: July 25, 2025, 12:00 pm EDTPublished: July 25, 2025, 12:00 pm EDT

Billions of years ago, our planet looked very different, including its coloring. New research suggests that early oceans were green, not blue, giving our planet a green hue overall. Here’s what made early Earth’s oceans green, and how it could happen again.

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