A psychologist explains why we should accept that we will never live in the Anthropocene.
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Many people associate Henry David Thoreau with solitude in the outdoors. But Thoreau understood in the mid-1800s that there was no such thing as nature separate from humans.
No records of the size of Native American populations before 1492 and the arrival of Europeans survive. A new study has found answers.
Our research shows that, millions of years from now, fossilised chicken bones will mark the era of human domination.
As we enter the age of the Anthropocene, there is a growing recognition of different kinds of ‘un-real’ storytelling.
Our love affair with the chair has horrible consequences.
Infrastructure systems – roads, water treatment systems, power grid – can’t be built the same ways as in the past. What’s a better roadmap for the future?
2018 brought the announcement of a new geologic age that covers the last 4,200 years. How do scientists divide up Earth’s timeline and what do these demarcations mean?
When it comes to the geological record, airbrushing out humans’ impact on the environment makes little sense.
The Whole Earth Catalog was a blueprint for sustainability that envisioned humans living in balance with nature. Its creative spirit was welcomed in a year riven by war, assassinations and riots.
New findings from the Chagos Islands are a perfect parable for the Anthropocene.
It’s time to admit the age of pristine nature is over. In its place is humanity and planet-shaping technologies, from gene editing to climate engineering. Earth Day in a Synthetic Age.
When present in the lowest atmospheric layer, ozone becomes a concern for human and plant health.
The climate crisis is a complex scientific problem. New systems have to be developed through democratic systemic reforms.
Nuclear bomb tests potentially mark the start of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.
Make that winter dram an intellectual one.
Imagine a world ravaged by the fallout from nuclear weapons and the runaway effects of climate change. Congratulations, you’ve just imagined the Plutocene, but let’s hope it doesn’t become a reality.
In late 2015, 200,000 refugees a month were arriving on the Greek island of Lesvos. Tasos Markou went there to photograph their plight - and ended up joining the locals to help the new arrivals.
To conserve Earth’s remarkable species, we must also defend the importance of science and scientific integrity.
To better understand and bring under control the new planetary flows that humanity has unleashed, we need to mobilize all the legal resources at your disposal.
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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Professor of Global Change Science at University of Leeds and, UCL
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Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney
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Allan and Helaine Shiff Curator of Climate Change, Royal Ontario Museum and Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
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Honorary Professor, Department of Geology, University of Leicester
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Associate professor, Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Principal Lecturer in Psychology, University of Brighton
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Professeur de droit (Law professor) - Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Université Côte d’Azur
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Professor of Communication, Public Policy & Urban Affairs, Northeastern University, Northeastern University
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Professor, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
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Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
