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EPA is recommending abandonment of the Clean Water Rule, despite the plethora of science showing the value of small wetlands to wildlife and water quality.
The Anthropocene Epoch has been proposed as a name for the current phase of Earth history. Used in this sense it is a geological term. Taking the Anthropocene seriously as a geological concept offers theContinue reading
However you feel about climate change, there is little doubt and much worry about the spread of ticks and Lyme disease northward.
Humans, society, institutions, and technology arise from, and are components of, the Earth. In principle, therefore, they lie within the scope of geology, the scientific study of the Earth. Of course this doesn’t mean thatContinue reading
The purchase and upkeep of exotic plantings is often misguided.
This question has more than one answer. There are multiple interpretations of what “Anthropocene” means, a complication to which I will return in subsequent posts. Here I focus on the use of “Anthropocene” as aContinue reading
I want to share some efforts of mine over the past few years to develop a framework for thinking about the status and future prospects of humans in the Anthropocene Epoch—the proposed new unit ofContinue reading
In the case of PM2.5 what you can’t see can hurt you.
production of wood pellets for fuel is likely to put more CO2 in the atmosphere and maintain less biodiversity on the land during the next several decades.
Nature is validating what we know about climate change from long-term records of temperature.
