anthropocene
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The IPCC Warns This Is a Make or Break Decade for Humanity
You don’t exactly need a scientist to know the climate is in trouble. But the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report dropped on Monday, and it’s an exclamation point to the real-world impacts of the climate crisis already playing out.
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A Strange New Blend Of Rock And Plastic Is Forming On A Portuguese Island
If you go to the beach, you’re likely to see some form of plastic pollution scattered in the waves or sprinkled among the sand grains. A bottle cap fragment here, a transparent piece of packaging there. But researchers have identified a new, and perhaps more permanent type of plastic pollution, one that incorporates itself right…
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Striking Photos Capture The Unnatural Transformation Of The Amazon Rainforest
There was this moment last year when I was sitting in the quietest place in the U.S. and a plane flew overhead, breaking the cocoon of natural sound. It was the sonic emulation of the world we’re creating, writ large. Humanity has crept into every nook and cranny of the planet, and now we’re being…
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The Fossils Of The 21st Century
In 100 million years, human civilisation will have bit the dust. Perhaps a nuclear war scorched the planet, or a last-ditch bid to solve climate change backfired horribly. Or, more optimistically, we overcame the myriad challenges of the 21st century, took to the stars and evolved into new species on alien worlds. Either way, what…