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The human footprint

Posted on November 3rd by Tom Yulsman. 9
A beautiful image marks a milestone — and illuminates the astonishing extent of our species' impact Yesterday will mostly be remembered as a momentous day in American politics. But it ...
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Humans as a geological force

Posted on April 14th by Tom Yulsman. 5
Much of the carbon dioxide we spew into the atmosphere dissolves in the oceans, where it causes the water to become increasingly acidic and therefore corrosive to the materials ...

Humans: a force of nature as formidable as tectonic plates?

Posted on December 9th by Tom Yulsman.
In a piece in EOS (subscription required), Erle C. Ellis of the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at the University of Maryland argues that human impacts on the environment ...