The concept of the Anthropocene was born at a scientific meeting in Mexico in 2000, conjured by chemist and Nobel…
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This aerial photo depicts the sawmills of Lagos, Nigeria. The timber from the country’s rainforests, some of the most heavily…
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Read More »Crawford Lake in Canada has been proposed to mark the start of the Anthropocene Gaertner/Alamy WE MIGHT be thrust into…
Read More »Human beings first disturbed moon dust on Sept. 13, 1959, when the USSR’s unmanned spacecraft Luna 2 alighted on the…
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