Posts Tagged ‘Anthropocene’

David vs. Goliath, Microbe vs. Man

The bacteria Anabaena spiroides, a nitrogen-fixing microbe. (Image by U.S. EPA))Humans might have ushered Earth into the Anthropocene, but we’d be unwise to ignore the fact that we’re always going to be living in the Age of Microbes, according to a new article in Microbiology Today. “Microbes will continue as climate engineers long after humans have burned that [...]

Exit the Holocene

The Earth’s geological time scale (image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey)Humans have so altered the Earth — from carbon dioxide levels to wholesale changes to plant and animal populations — that we’ve created a whole new geological epoch for ourselves, according to research published this week by the Geological Society of America. The authors of the study conclude that Nobel

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