Human activity doesn’t just reduce biodiversity – new research explores how we are continually creating new species and ecosystems, too.
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Science explains how people are changing our natural systems, but we need to recognize the importance – and power – of emotions and the spiritual world in charting a course to the future.
Half of the world’s vegetated land has got greener in the past 30 years, mostly driven by rising CO2.
Fire has played a vital role in human history, and will continue to. Recent advances in fusion herald the freeing of fire from captivity back into its natural form.
The presidential candidates should be talking about exploring and cataloguing our biosphere, which holds vital clues for how humanity should navigate the future.
There’s no need for manufactured debates about a new geological era – we should just get on with the business of solving our problems.
We’re in a new geological era, say scientists.
Human activities have altered whole ecosystems with declines in species diversity, extinctions and the introduction of weeds and pests. But it’s not just the outside world we’re harming.
Global warming is, by definition, experienced worldwide. But a new study shows that the tropics were the first places on earth where the human effect on climate outstripped normal climate variations.
Many ecosystems have changed so radically that it is no longer possible to restore them to what they once were and in other situations it is not appropriate.
Proposals to set aside vast tracts of land for wildlife raise ethical questions, challenging the human-centric view of the value of life.
The pope’s encyclical turns climate change into a moral discussion by focusing on the disproportionate impact of climate change on poor countries and regions.
Jurassic World is opening in cinemas this Thursday and again raises the idea of resurrecting extinct creatures. But there’s plenty of other contenders before we even think of recreating dinosaurs.
Apes and people are sharing habitat more than ever. As apes are pushed into novel situations, we can see how they adapt and maybe find clues into early human evolution.
Scientists, philosophers, historians, journalists, agency administrators and activists grapple with what it means to ‘save nature’ in the Anthropocene.
Economic inequality and environmental degradation are closely linked – and stem from politicians’ fixation on economic growth at all costs.
The Anthropocene, as an epoch of human-driven planetary change, poses huge environmental and political problems. But it could also force us to develop proper ecological and democratic accountability.
Rather than impose regulations to limit carbon emissions, policies should focus on innovation and systems change through social sciences.
When Europeans first arrived in the Americas they didn’t just make human history – they changed planet Earth forever.
The Earth recently entered a new epoch – the Anthropocene. Since the dawn of modern mechanised industry and the use of fossil fuels, the story goes that human beings have become the dominant force for…
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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
