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Overwhelming evidence of human-driven Anthropocene
2016-01-08 15:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bonham Journal: Additionally, human farming and fishing have brought about "transglobal species invasions...permanently reconfiguring Earth's biological trajectory". Study's lead researcher Colin Waters from the British Geological Survey said that the paper unveils about the big changes and as massive as the ones happened at the end of the last ice age. That is why, the Anthropocene Working Group believe that we have moved on into a new era, the Anthropocene Epoch. One of the factors considered is climate...
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The Anthropocene: Hard evidence a human-driven Earth
2016-01-08 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The evidence for a new geological epoch which marks the impact of human activity on Earth is now overwhelming according to a recent paper by an international group of geoscientists. The Anthropocene, which is argued to start in the mid-20th Century, is marked by the spread of materials such as aluminium, concrete, plastic, fly ash and fallout from nuclear testing across the planet, coincident with elevated greenhouse gas emissions and unprecedented trans-global species invasions. An international...
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Scientists peg Anthropocene to first farmers
2015-12-19 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new analysis of the fossil record shows that a deep pattern in nature remained the same for 300 million years. Then, 6,000 years ago, the pattern was disrupted -- at about the same time that agriculture spread across North America. "When early humans started farming and became dominant in the terrestrial landscape, we see this dramatic restructuring of plant and animal communities," said University of Vermont biologist Nicholas Gotelli, an expert on statistics and the senior author on the new...
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New Roles for Solid Waste Managers in the Anthropocene
2015-11-20 09:37:00| Waste Age
Bill Sheehan What will the solid waste management profession look like in 2030? read more
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Apothecary for the Anthropocene
2015-09-28 22:51:42| PortlandOnline
Talented artist Deanna Pindell takes viewers on a mysterious and thought-provoking journey in the Portland Buildings latest art installation, Apothecary for the Anthropocene.
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