Human-driven land clearing and climate change are sending plants extinct at a rapid rate, risking a devastating biodiversity crash.
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Geology will be key to any green transition, but its academic reputation needs an urgent makeover.
Are our brains wired to favour growth over environmentally rational decisions?
Researchers examined how youth on three continents think about digital technology today and conducted an experiment to learn what youth said after living without their phones for a week.
Grade 4 student Charlene seemed chronically off-task -- until an educator noticed she was, in fact, the sole student pursuing the question, 'Was the oil boom bad for our wildlife?'
The first step is admitting we have a problem, but what should come next to protect the planet?
New research suggests that even ecologically flexible baboons could be at significant risk of habitat loss and endangerment from anthropogenic climate change.
Understanding the evolutionary roots of what draws us to delusions of legacy and distractions of leisure will help us address the environmental challenges of the 21st century.
Humankind already has the knowledge to make sustainable and socially just ways of living on this planet possible. But new types of design and economics are needed for anything to change.
A psychologist explains why we should accept that we will never live in the Anthropocene.
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.
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Professor of Earth System Science, UCL
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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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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Earth and paleo-climate scientist, Australian National University
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Associate Professor of Communication, Northeastern University
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Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
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Jean-Sylvestre Bergé is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professeur de droit (Law professor) - Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (UNS)
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Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW
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Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of Politics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor of Sustainability, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne
