Current Anthropology, Vol. 60, No. S20, Supplement 20: Patchy Anthropocene: Frenzies and Afterlives of Violent Simplifications (August 2019), pp. S296-S308 (13 pages) This paper advances a heuristic ...
Kelly Jazvac, “Plastiglomerate Samples” (2013), plastic and beach sediment, including sand, basalt rock, wood and coral. All of these found-object artworks are the results of a collaboration between ...
The Working Group on the 'Anthropocene' (AWG) will provide its summary of evidence and its provisional recommendations on a potential new geological time interval. The Working Group on the ...
What does the term Anthropocene – the proposed name for the geological era we live in – mean to you? Many people view the Anthropocene merely as the sum of all environmental problems. For me it is ...
Evidence for a new geological epoch which marks the impact of human activity on the Earth is now overwhelming, according to a recent paper by an international group of geoscientists. The evidence for ...
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Scientists conduct sampling at Crawford Lake in Ontario, Canada, in April 2023. Last summer, a working group chose the lake as a representative location for the influence of human activity on the ...
Geologists divide time into epochs or series, with subdivisions, according to major variations in rock sequences. Those divisions may be recalibrated as new evidence appears. Organizations like the ...
The evidence of humans changing the planet is solid as rock. A new catalogue of minerals counts 208 that result solely or primarily from human activity, says Robert Hazen of the Carnegie Institution ...
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