WWF: An ever-growing demand for resources by a growing population is putting tremendous pressures on our planet’s biodiversity and is…
NAS: National science academies from 15 countries issued joint statements today calling on world leaders who are about to meet…
Royal Society: Rapid and widespread changes in the world’s human population, coupled with unprecedented levels of consumption present profound challenges…
In celebration of Earth Day this year, NASA’s Webby Award-winning Global Climate Change website has unveiled a new version of its…
A 50 percent reduction in meat consumption and emissions is needed
Woods Hole Research Center: Meat consumption in the developed world…
Country sizes show the carbon footprint of all goods and services consumed in a nation, including imports and excluding exports.…
Anthropocene.info is a beta version. Phase two and phase three of the site development will be complete by the end of…
Planet Under Pressure: Scientists issue first “State of the Planet” declaration at the world’s largest gathering of experts on global…
ScienceDaily — Research now indicates that the world is nearing critical tipping points in the Earth system, including on climate and…
Globaia: Behind the name lie the challenges of our time. This concept illustrates and groups together the main agents that…
Act now or face costly consequences, warns OECD
OECD: Humanity has witnessed unprecedented growth and prosperity in the past decades, with…
NOAA concluded in 2011 that “human-caused climate change [is now] a major factor in more frequent Mediterranean droughts.” Reds…
Guardian: Huge increase in large-scale mining is being fuelled by the rising price of metals and oil, as search for…
The Independent: Large regions of the open ocean are being starved of oxygen because of warmer sea temperatures according to…
Guardian: Heavier rainfall, fiercer storms and intensifying droughts are likely to strike the world in the coming decades as climate…
CPWF: This week, the Challenge Program on Water and Food is convening the third International Forum on Water and Food…
viewsoftheworld: World Population 2085
A lot has changed from the 2.5…
The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study aims to contribute to a clearer understanding of global warming based on a more…
NATURE Climate Change: On 31 October 2011, according to projections made by the United Nations (UN), there will be seven…
In this post, Joe Romm summarizes what the recent scientific literature…
Johan Rockström, Executive Director of SEI, speaks about planetary boundaries in an interview produced by Beyond The Line.
“We’re pushing the limits…
In the 29 July 2011 issue, Science examines the opportunities and challenges created by demographic changes around the world.
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Yale Environment360: With global population expected to surpass 7 billion people this year, the staggering impact on an overtaxed planet…
The new maps show the social and physical environment in relation to population and provide a fresh perspective on the…
From: Revkin | Jun 24, 2011 |
Bryan Lovell, a longtime oil geologist and president of the Geological Society of London, explains…
A high-level international workshop convened by IPSO met at the University of Oxford earlier this year. It was the first…
Experts want the human imprint in the geological record to be acknowledged as a new epoch, the Anthropocene
Executive Director of the Australian National University’s Climate Change Institute, Professor Will Steffen, takes us on a journey through the…
YouTube: an op-ed by Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia.com
Bill McKibben…
In 2002 the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Crutzen used the concept of the Anthropocene to denote the ever increasing influence…
Humanity’s profound impact on this planet is hard to deny, but is it big enough to merit its own geological…
The Anthropocene, following the lost world of the Holocene, holds challenges for both science and society.
Jan Zalasiewicz*
Department of Geology, University…
Is human activity altering the planet on a scale comparable to major geological events of the past? Scientists are now…
A decade ago, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Crutzen first suggested we were living in the “Anthropocene,” a new geological epoch…
THE Earth is a big thing; if you divided it up evenly among its 7 billion inhabitants, they would…
The Stockholm Memorandum concludes that the planet has entered a new geological age, the Anthropocene. It recommends a suite of…
EPI: We are facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency. Can we think systemically and fashion policies accordingly? Can…
New approaches are needed to help humanity deal with climate change and other global environmental threats that lie ahead in…
