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Anthropocene

Anthropocene Math in the Age of Trump: Humans Are Running Out of Time to Save the Climate

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Absent Radical System Change, World Faces Two-Thirds Wildlife Loss by 2020

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Global populations of wild animals could be down by two-thirds by 2020 without reform to food and energy systems, according to a devastating new report out Thursday. The analysis by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Zoological Society of London finds that animal populations dropped 58 percent between 1970 and 2012. Without radical...

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Humans Are Overfishing the Oceans Into 'Unprecedented' Mass Extinction

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

People are driving marine ecosystems to "unprecedented" mass extinction,...

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World is Warming at Rate 'Unprecedented' for 1,000 Years

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Another day, another dire warning about the global climate emergency. NASA's...

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The Anthropocene Is Here: Humanity Has Pushed Earth Into a New Epoch

Look What We've Done: Human-Made Epoch of Nightmares Is Here

Human Exploitation of Nature Has Driven Planetary Health to the Edge

That Was Easy: In Just 60 Years, Neoliberal Capitalism Has Nearly Broken Planet Earth

Stressed Ecosystems Leaving Humanity High and Dry

On the Brink: Planet Near Irreversible Point of Global Warming

Brief History, Destructive Impact: Geologists Debate 'Human Epoch'

Earth 'Entering New Age of Geological Time'

Is Water the New Oil?

Nobel Laureate Calls for Post-Kyoto Treaty

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Center for Biological Diversity

World Population Day Marks Global Population's March Toward 7 Billion...

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Aaron Vansintjan

Degrowth Is Punk as Fuck

Robert C. Koehler

Reflections on the Anthropocene

Forrest Watkins

Hope and Burnout in the Anthropocene

Chris Hedges

Apocalyptic Capitalism

Jedediah Purdy

Climate Apocalypse and/or Democracy

Subhankar Banerjee

Paradise Burning: Why We All Need to Learn the Word “Anthropogenic”

Ian Angus

Does Anthropocene Science Blame All Humanity?

Kate Aronoff

Crisis, Opportunity and Climate Austerity in Drought-Stricken California

Richard Heinberg

The Great Burning: On Rising to the Greatest Challenge Humanity Has Ever Faced

Vishwas Satgar

The Climate Is Ripe for Social Change

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