Anthropocene
The Deeper I Stare Into the Internet, the More I See the World Going to Waste
We have a strange, sad way of leaving things behind.
'Cosmos' Was Too Soft on Our Current Mass Extinction Event
Neil deGrasse Tyson said the sixth mass extinction event has no name. It does, and everyone should know it.
The Era of Man May Not Have Even Started Yet
Those of us who are into this sort of thing have gotten pretty familiar with the Anthropocene; that epoch following the Holocene that defines the time where man began to fundamentally change the face of the planet. When biologists talk about the...
There Are Less Than 100 Members of Each of These Species Left in Existence
When we talk about the sixth great extinction event—the humankind-induced mass die-off that we're in the early stages of at the moment—we talk about climate change. We talk about vanishing habitats, we talk about biodiversity loss, and we talk about...
Welcome to the Anthropocene Charts 250 Years Of Humanity's Impact On Planet Earth
This infographic shows 250 years of man being the top dog.
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