Anthropocene

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New Research Finds Climate Change's Fingerprint Everywhere

From the smallest scale to the largest, climate change has left no stoned unturned in its initial impacts on the planet and its species. Stay tuned.

November 24, 2016 - Pacific Standard

Adapting Landscape Architecture to the Anthropocene

As the effects of humans accelerate the changes occurring on the planet, landscape architects and planners alike will need to take into account ways that civilization can adapt to a lack of stability.

July 4, 2015 - Places Journal

Earth at night

7 Newly Discovered Facts About the Earth

The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970. Since then we've discovered an incredible amount about the Earth in addition to doing the planet an incredible amount of irrevocable harm.

April 22, 2015 - Vox

Into the Anthropocene

The mark of human civilization will last long after humans go extinct, according to this article looking at the anthropocene, or the age of humankind.

February 22, 2011 - National Geographic

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