Human impacts prior to the Industrial Revolution are not well constrained. We investigate
whether the decline in global atmospheric CO 2 concentration by 7–10 ppm in the late …

Because of human action, the Earth has entered an era where profound changes in the
global environment are creating novel conditions that will be discernable far into the future …

What is the future of 'environmental'policy in times of earth system transformations and the
recognition of the 'Anthropocene'as a new epoch in planetary history? I argue that fifty years …

Preservation of natural and cultural heritage is often said to be something that is done for the
future, or on behalf of future generations, but the precise relationship of such practices to the …

Humans may live in the Anthropocene, but this does not affect all in the same way. How
would the Anthropocene look if, instead of searching its traces in the geosphere …

Over the course of the last decade the concept of the Anthropocene has become widely
established within and beyond the geoscientific literature but its boundaries remain …

The Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship
as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural …

Purpose Humanity has been modifying the planet in a measurable way for thousands of
years. Recently, this influence has been such that some feel we are in a new geological …

In early 2022, over 30 years after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
released its first report on the challenges posed by climate change and four subsequent …

We now find ourselves in a new geological age: the Anthropocene. The climate is changing
and species are disappearing at a rate not seen since Earth's major extinctions. The rapid …