The expansion of globalized industrial societies is causing global warming, ecosystem
degradation, and species and language extinctions worldwide. Mainstream conservation …

It has been argued that we have now entered the Anthropocene, a proposed epoch in which
humans are having a dominant impact on the Earth system. While some geologists have …

Landscape fragmentation is statistically correlated with both increases and decreases in
wildfire burned area (BA). These different directions-of-impact are not mechanistically …

The extent to which pre-Columbian human societies occupied and significantly impacted
Amazonian environments have been long-standing questions and are currently under active …

Amazonian dark earth (ADE) is highly nutrient-and carbon-rich soil created by past
inhabitants of the Amazon. It would be valuable to know the extent of ADE because of its …

Modern humans originated in Africa 300,000 yr ago, and before leaving their continent of
origin, they underwent a process of intense diversification involving complex demographic …

The determination of δ13C and δ15N values is a common method in archaeological isotope
analysis—in studying botanical and human remains, dietary practices, and less typically …

ABSTRACT The Economic Monetary Valuation (EMV) of Ecosystem Services (ESs) and
Natural Capital (NC) has been proposed and pursued by several scholars as an effective …

With more people now living in urban areas than outside of them, urbanism is becoming an
increasingly important socioeconomic and ecological arena for our species in the twenty-first …

We describe a roadmap using three sets of technologies to enable base-load nuclear
reactors to replace all fossil fuels in a low-carbon world. The technologies integrate nuclear …