Tag: Anthropocene
A Canadian lake holds the key to the beginning of the...
Alejandro Cearreta, Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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Are we really...
Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots...
Ben Marwick, University of Washington; Erle C. Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lucas Stephens, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History,...
Thoreau’s great insight for the Anthropocene: Wildness is an attitude, not...
Robert M. Thorson, University of Connecticut
When Americans quote writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, they often reach for his assertion that “In Wildness is...
Welcome to the new Meghalayan age – here’s how it fits...
Steve Petsch, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth’s history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites or other enigmatic...
Why we need a ‘moon shot’ to catalogue the Earth’s biodiversity
Quentin Wheeler, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
It’s unlikely that presidential candidates will ever utter the word “biodiversity” while...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
