From the air we breathe to the ground we walk on to ... For the past 15 years, researchers with the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) have argued that the epoch of human-driven changes to the ...

But that label is outdated, some experts say. They argue for “Anthropocene”—from anthropo, for “man,” and cene, for “new”—because human-kind has caused mass extinctions of plant ...

The Anthropocene, by contrast ... Fertilizer factories, for example, now fix more nitrogen from the air, converting it to a biologically usable form, than all the plants and microbes on land ...

air and oceans caused by using fossil fuels. But the age of humans is about more than just climate change. Our awareness of both the current state of the planet and the effects of our actions is a key ...

The wish, need or preference to pin down a precise official start date for the Anthropocene is curious. The boundary between the preceding epochs, the Pleistocene and Holocene, says Encyclopaedia ...

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