University of Leicester researchers lead Anthropocene study into lasting effects of plastic on land and oceans · Evidence suggests Earth is entering an ‘Age of Plastic’ · Plastics can travel... Read more
A decade on, IGBP in collaboration with the Stockholm Resilience Centre has reassessed and updated the Great Acceleration indicators, first published in the IGBP synthesis, Global Change and... Read more
“People and the Planet” During the 352-year life span of the Royal Society, the human population has risen from less than one billion people to seven billion and counting. That boom has been... Read more
An Australian researcher wonders “where on Earth are we going? The impact of human activity on the Earth is running out of control, and the amount of time in which action can be taken... Read more
Environmentalism, like politics in general, is depressingly polarized these days. On one side, alarmists like the activist Bill McKibben, climatologist James Hansen and blogger Joe Ro... Read more
Image by ozgurmulazimoglu via Flickr The Earth has entered a new geological period in which human influence dominates the state of the planet, compounding uncertainty about the future. In 20... Read more