Months ago, I learned of a riveting book called Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene, edited by renowned photographer Jo-Anne McArthur and Keith Wilson, co-founder (with Britta Jaschinski) of ...

The human population explosion, soaring from 1.6 billion to over 6 billion during the 20 th century, has had a profound impact on global environments and biodiversity. However, large mammalian ...

The Eurasian blue tit has been seen lacing nests with cigarette butts. It might be acting as a weapon against parasites.

This sobering Canadian eco-documentary hypothesizes that the world has entered a new era in the geological time scale: the Anthropocene epoch. It’s the age in which human activity, for the first time, ...

NH copy Purchased with funds gifted by Eva and Ira Pell in support of the study of biodiversity at the Smithsonian. Prologue: The carnal immanence of political realism - realism, materiality, and ...

There is no question that the existence of humans as a species has dramatically altered planet Earth in ways both obvious and subtle. From the air we breathe to the ground we walk on to the water we ...

In early March, a team of scientists rejected the motion to designate the start of a new geological epoch, coined under the term “Anthropocene” to highlight the epoch we are currently living in as one ...

The Anthropocene is a relatively recent term, coined to define the epoch in which human activity is increasingly dictating environmental and biological change on Earth as previous periods driven by ...