{
  "id": 10008550,
  "title": "Scientists may have misread a 2-billion-year-old clue about Earth",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/scientists-may-have-misread-a-2-billion-year-old-clue-about-earth",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-26T14:38:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ScienceDaily",
    "slug": "sciencedaily",
    "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260925093201.htm"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Scientists have found that a famous 2-billion-year-old chemical signature, once thought to record a massive global change in Earth’s carbon cycle, may instead have been produced by local magma, hydrocarbons, and methane-eating microbes. The discovery raises new questions about what was really happening as oxygen transformed the young planet.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}