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 ...
‘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 ...
ZME Science on MSN2d
Birds are building nests out of decades-old plastic trash and it’s a record of the Anthropocene
The most striking discovery was a nest built on an abandoned foundation pile in Amsterdam’s Rokin canal. Over decades, it had ...
Anthropocene Magazine on MSN22h
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 ...
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 ...
India Today on MSN22h
Extreme weather will be your new normal in 2025: Here's why
If 2024 was bad, 2025 will be no better, with an early summer already predicted in India, even higher temperatures than last year and frequent heat-waves ...
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 ...
The Ecologist1d
Class struggle in the climate crisis
The interminable character of this threat makes climate crisis distinct to other crises. In Holgersen’s words: “Economic ...
AZoCleantech on MSN22h
Self-Optimizing Catalysts Facilitate Water-Splitting for the Green Production of Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a much-debated option in terms of CO2-neutral energy production. Electrolyzer units that split water into its ...
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 ...
Frieze15d
Carl Cheng Makes Art for the Anthropocene
The meeting of environment and technology is front and centre in the Californian artist’s retrospective at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia ...