Current Anthropology, Vol. 60, No. S20, Supplement 20: Patchy Anthropocene: Frenzies and Afterlives of Violent Simplifications (August 2019), pp. S296-S308 (13 pages) This paper advances a heuristic ...

Like some eerie sculpture, a dome-shaped pile of elephant tusks glimmers in a darkened gallery. It’s a non-existent thing, the virtual recreation of a huge cache of contraband ivory burned to ashes ...

The Anthropocene isn’t something new, or even recent. Large-scale environmental change began when our ancestors started agriculture; Earth entered an anthropogenic stage 3,000 years ago or even ...

Much has been written about the Anthropocene—a proposed new division of geologic time in which humans are a dominant force for planetary change: When did it begin? How might it unfold? And can we, the ...

While emerging from the geological and earth system sciences and frequently understood as a solely environmental matter, over the last decade the Anthropocene has become an important name for a much ...

A group of scientists has presented Canada's Crawford Lake as the best example of humanity's destabilizing impact on the environment. Scientists on Tuesday said that sediment at Crawford Lake in ...

There are stories that need to be told repeatedly from different perspectives. There are stories, particularly in science, which need to unfold across disciplines, unravelling both as an epic and ...

In the forth edition of our masters students' blog series, Panrot Piwuna rethinks human rights in the age of the Anthropocene. In this geological epoch, climate change and various ecological shifts ...