Anthropocene

Animal-based foods produce about twice the emissions of plant-based ones, a new comprehensive study finds

Extremely dry conditions could help the blaze overtake last year’s August Complex fire as the record holder

Researcher Matthew Austin has become a wildflower pollinator, sans the wings.

Like Katrina before it, the storm may make living conditions untenable in hard-hit areas

Repercussions of planned and anticipated wolf hunts and traps could ripple through ecosystems for years to come, scientists say

In Science Book Talk, a new four-part podcast miniseries, host Deboki Chakravarti acts as literary guide to two science books that share a beautiful and sometimes deeply resonant entanglement.

In this week’s show: Underland, by Robert MacFarlane, and Islands of Abandonment, by Cal Flyn. 

The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report uses data from our planet’s distant past to better understand current warming

Global warming is setting free carbon from life buried long ago in the Arctic’s frozen soils, but its impact on the climate crisis is unclear

These are startling times, but there’s a way out

Want some perspective on how much carbon dioxide human activity produces? Here it is

Human activity has left permanent marks on the planet

There’s no doubt that humans have drastically changed the Earth. The global scale impacts of humans on the environment has led many scientists, scholars, and environmentalists to use the term Anthropocene to describe our present geological period.