anthropocene
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What will be left when we’re gone? Bones, plastic, and radioactive waste.
Robert Macfarlane goes underground to see how humans will be remembered.
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Humans really are unprecedented in Earth’s geological history — and that’s a bad thing
The science is in! The planet hasn't changed this much since the evolution of multicellular animals.
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Watch New York’s sewer rats discuss climate change
If the rats shall inherit the earth when humans are gone ... how do they feel about climate change?
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Happy birthday, Papa Climate Change!
Celebrate the birthday of Svante Arrhenius, the guy who first figured out that all this fossil fuel burning might screw us over someday.
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Now we can watch the oceans acidify in real time
This is a handy new tool for scientists, and a mesmerizing screensaver for the rest of us.
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Can movies slow mass extinction? This filmmaker thinks so
We talked to Oscar-winning documentarian Louie Psihoyos about how our tech-obsession might help save disappearing species, even if it's also killing them.
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What if virtual reality is our best chance to save the planet?
The Sundance premiere of Racing Extinction was pretty depressing -- but not for the obvious reasons.
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This chart of rising ocean temperatures is terrifying
NOAA's graph can't even handle the ocean's rising temperature, and neither can we.
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Quick, go visit the ocean one last time before it dies
We mess with the oceans so much that we may be due for a marine mass extinction, says a new broad study.