Analysis of the phenomenon of “total circulation” – situations in which humanity produces a circulation of goods or persons that escapes its control.
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Thinking about climate change as a process of ‘weathering’ reminds us of the profound and highly unequal consequences for all living things.
If infrastructure is to meet the needs and challenges of an uncertain future, we need to move beyond the AAA ratings mindset and aim for net-positive social and ecological outcomes as well.
Interplanetary colonisation was once the stuff of science fiction but now there are plans to colonise Mars. How have film-makers and writers dealt with our rapacious Anthropocene age?
If people are starting to look much worse in democratic terms, trees are starting to look much better. We are learning that plants engage in meaningful and, more to the point, truthful communication.
In the face of planetary problems such as climate change, does national citizenship lose its meaning?
Scientific and technological innovations and economic policies promoting growth at all costs have created a consumption and production vortex on a collision course with the Earth system.
The Anthropocene is often associated with problems such as climate change and inequality. But there is also hope that it can come with positive change for the benefit of people.
The Anthropocene most likely started long before the 1950s.
Technology had enabled humans to explore the deep sea, the Earth’s poles, and outer space. But we shouldn’t forget historical lessons about frontiers in the process of traversing them.
Yes, humans hold awesome power over the rest of the planet, but nature will always fight our attempts to ‘tame’ the natural world.
The rise of urban greening is an opportunity to recast the relationship between people and environment. Humans and non-human species are ecologically intertwined as inhabitants of cities.
Our institutions are not solving the world’s wicked problems, such as the refugee crisis and climate change. Can sustainable coffee – a bottoms-up, modular approach – provide clues to a better way?
An instant likely feels different to a person, or a redwood, or a gnat. What’s infinitely small for one might be a whole lifetime for another – and that scale influences the choices we make.
A volcanic eruption in 1815 triggered a year without a summer – prompting a flowering of nature writing that is all too relevant today.
A philosopher of ‘procreation ethics’ at the center of a controversy over having kids explains why we can’t ignore the population question in an era of climate change.
How long the Anthropocene will last, and what will be its most enduring attributes, will not be driven and decided scientifically.
An expert panel has announced that we truly are living in the geological era defined by humanity’s fingerprint. But is it as simple as that, and does it leave “Anthropocene science” open to attack?
Liberty is a political matter bound up with institutionalised struggles for equality among individuals, groups, networks and organisations. This is where the cult of the free individual falls down.
A scientist dips her toe into a new form of group-based performance art: devising new words to describe new feelings and phenomena of a rapidly changing world.
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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
