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Saving Wild Places in the 'Anthropocene'
2013-09-27 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: We're living in the epoch some scientists call the "Anthropocene" an age in which human influence touches nearly everything on the planet. Forty years after the signing of the Endangered Species Act, and nearly 50 years after the Wilderness Act, do we need to rethink how we protect nature? Environmental historian William Cronon and environmental geographer Paul Robbins discuss protecting wild places in the age of climate change.
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'Anthropocene' period would recognize humanity's impact on Earth
2013-07-15 17:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: The Anthropocene is the name of a proposed new geological time period (probably an epoch) that may soon enter the official Geologic Time Scale. The Anthropocene is defined by the human influence on Earth, where we have become a geological force shaping the global landscape and evolution of our planet. According to this idea, the present epoch still known as the Holocene, which started 11,000 years ago would have ended somewhere between the end of 18th century and the 1950s (when the Anthropocene...
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