Plastic trash in bird nests documents the Anthropocene epoch
What if expiration dates could tell us more than when something goes bad? Scientists have found that dates on plastic food ...
Anthropocene Magazine on MSN51m
The secret to better batteries could be in your closet
The molecular reactions of nylon with the battery materials reduces unwanted chemical reactions, prevents dendrites and ...
ZME Science on MSN2d
Birds are building nests out of decades-old plastic trash and it’s a record of the Anthropocene
FIFA World Cup souvenir. A McDonald’s McChicken container from 1996. Decades-old plastic packaging. Look inside the nests of ...
Anthropocene Magazine on MSN1d
When planting trees to slow climate change, don’t plant the same tree all the time
An experiment spanning 16 years found that places reforested with five kinds of trees stored 36% more carbon than ...
Plastic Triggered a New Geological Epoch—and the Evidence May Be in Bird Nests
Researchers reconstructed the history of an unusual 30-year-old bird nest based on the expiration dates printed on plastic ...
New Scientist20d
Why geologists can’t agree on when the Anthropocene Epoch began
Nobody doubts that human activities have dramatically transformed Earth, so why has there been no official recognition of the ...
‘Earth is warming at its fastest pace in 10,000 years — business leaders must heed the Anthropocene’
The 25th ET Awards for Corporate Excellence featured a special address by Mrs Meera Jain. She highlighted the pressing need ...
THE WEEK12mon
What is the Anthropocene — and more importantly, when?
For the past 15 years, researchers with the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) have argued that the epoch of human-driven changes to the Earth's geology (for which their team is named) began more ...
Envirotech Online16d
What is the Anthropocene and what does it mean for environmental monitoring?
For those working in environmental monitoring, it is essential to understand that our planetary system is now completely ...
Indiana Public Media13d
Welcome to the Anthropocene
That's what occurred in 2002 to Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize‑winning chemist. The epoch spanning the past 10,000 years is known as the Holocene, meaning "all that's recent." Crutzen suggested that the ...
Drexel University11mon
Anthems for the Anthropocene
Can it generate climate action? We think it can. Participants in Anthems for the Anthropocene are challenged to create, perform, and record an original song, in response to a specific creative prompt, ...
BroadwayWorld16d
FAUST IN THE ANTHROPOCENE Comes to Snowlion Rep
Snowlion Repertory Company, bringing great THEATER MADE IN MAINE to the greater Portland area since 2010, will present Faust in the Anthropocene at The Hill Arts on Munjoy Hill in Portland ...