Posts Tagged ‘Anthropocene’
Can Humans Go From Unintended Global Warming to Climate By Design?
By Andrew C. Revkin | Dot Earth, The New York Times Geoengineering is in the wind more and more these days, particularly the use of sun-blocking aerosols as a cheap, temporary counterweight to greenhouse-gas-driven global warming. In pondering the plausibility or desirability of such a tool, it might be useful to start with a thought experiment: 1) Suppose…
Read MoreUnderstand The World Better With This Illustrated User’s Guide To The Anthropocene
By Adele Peters | FastCo Exist Two decades ago, scientist James Lovelock imagined what the last book on earth should look like: a post-apocalyptic survival guide that explains the basics of the planet, why it collapsed, and how to avoid recreating the same mistakes. The idea morphed into something a little more helpful, a book we…
Read MoreUN: Global agriculture needs a ‘profound transformation’ to fight climate change and protect food security
By Chelsea Harvey | The Washington Post Climate change has already begun to affect the world’s food production, a new report from the United Nations warns — and unless significant action is taken, it could put millions more people at risk of hunger and poverty in the next few decades. It’s a message that’s been emphasized over and over…
Read MoreThe world passes 400ppm carbon dioxide threshold. Permanently
By Brian Kahn | The Guardian In the centuries to come, history books will likely look back on September 2016 as a major milestone for the world’s climate. At a time when atmospheric carbon dioxide is usually at its minimum, the monthly value failed to drop below 400 parts per million (ppm). That all but ensures…
Read MoreLimiting the Planet to 1.5 Degrees C of Warming Is Crucial, but It Won’t Be Easy
By Clive Hamilton | Scientific American Astonishment was universal last December when the Paris Agreement on climate change included the aspiration to limit warming to 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels, a much tougher target than the standard of 2°, now seen as too risky. It was a remarkable triumph for a long campaign by the small…
Read MoreWWF Scorecard shows which companies kept their promises to consumers on palm oil
By WWF Gland, Switzerland. While many palm oil buyers are taking the right actions on palm oil, some have failed to keep their promises to consumers or are still doing nothing at all to help reduce deforestation and other adverse impacts of producing the world’s most popular vegetable oil in some of the most vulnerable tropical…
Read More375 top scientists warn of ‘real, serious, immediate’ climate threat
By John Abraham | The Guardian Yesterday, 375 of the world’s top scientists, including 30 Nobel Prize winners, published an open letter regarding climate change. In the letter, the scientists report that the evidence is clear: humans are causing climate change. We are now observing climate change and its affect across the globe. The seas are rising,…
Read MoreWhat the ‘sixth extinction’ will look like in the oceans: The largest species die off first
By Chris Mooney | The Washington Post | September 14, 2016 We mostly can’t see it around us, and too few of us seem to care — but nonetheless, scientists are increasingly convinced that the world is barreling towards what has been called a “sixth mass extinction” event. Simply put, species are going extinct at a rate…
Read MoreThanks to Mega for bringing awareness to The Anthropocene Project
Our new film is out! Watch @edwardburtynsky discuss his upcoming documentary the @anthropocene. #photography #art https://t.co/aWnGfKBpYo — Mega (@megaonline) September 12, 2016
Read MoreWilderness land set to disappear from planet by 2100 as humans move in
By Ian Johnston | Independent | September 8, 2016 A tenth of the world’s wild land – an area equivalent to half the vast Amazon basin – has been lost in just two decades in an “alarming” trend that requires urgent action on an international scale, experts have warned. At the current rate of decline there will be no…
Read MoreThe Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age
By Damian Carrington | The Guardian | August 29, 2016 Humanity’s impact on the Earth is now so profound that a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – needs to be declared, according to an official expert group who presented the recommendation to the International Geological Congress in Cape Town on Monday. The new epoch should…
Read MoreOne of the World’s Biggest Fisheries Is on the Verge of Collapse
By Rachael Bale | National Geographic | August 29, 2016 PUERTO PRINCESA, PHILIPPINESYears ago Christopher Tubo caught a 660-pound blue marlin in the South China Sea. The fishing was good there, he says. Tuna fishermen would come home from a trip with dozens of the high-value fish as well as a good haul of other species.…
Read MoreAtomic bombs and oil addiction herald Earth’s new epoch: The Anthropocene
By Paul Voosen | Science Magazine | August 24, 2016 Just after World War II, when the atomic bombs fell and our thirst for coal and oil became a full-blown addiction, Earth entered the Anthropocene, a new geologic time when humanity’s environmental reach left a mark in sediments worldwide. That’s the majority conclusion of the Anthropocene Working Group, a…
Read MoreDefine the Anthropocene in terms of the whole Earth
By Clive Hamilton | Nature | August 17, 2016 Do we live in the Anthropocene? Officially, not yet — although the debate about whether to declare a new geological epoch will resurface later this month at the International Geological Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. The concept of the Anthropocene has become well known and is much…
Read MoreWorld Elephant Day
It's #WorldElephantDay & we are remembering the @kwskenya Ivory Burn as a powerful statement against the ivory trade pic.twitter.com/bL4sLzJKpG — Anthropocene Film (@anthropocene) August 12, 2016
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