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Showing posts with label pollution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pollution. Show all posts
Monday, October 26, 2015
Friday, September 4, 2015
In the News: Birds of a Feather
Labels:
Anthropocene
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birds
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extinction
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Follow Friday
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pollution
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Secrets of the Deep
Fig.1. The National Ice Core Laboratory holds 17,000 meters of ice cores from Antarctica, Greenland, and North America. The typical tube contains a one meter ice core section (Credit: Eric Cravens, National Ice Core Lab, USGS)
During the early morning hours of July 16, 1945, an atomic bomb was detonated for the first time ever. This test, completed in a remote corner of New Mexico by scientists with the U.S. Army, marked a significant point in human history. One study contends that this date is the beginning of the Anthropocene, while others believe that the “Age of Humans” may stretch back to around 10,000 years ago with the advent of agriculture. A recent study, however, hopes that work with ice cores may help to inform this debate, as well as show how humans affect the world around them.
Labels:
climate change
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ice cores
,
pollution
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