Anthropocene

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  PG&E continues moving forward with power line undergrounding project

  CBS News - Juliette Goodrich

  SAN FRANCISCO -- As PG&E moves forward with the utility's plan to bury thousands of miles of power lines underground, there are some who question …

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  Carbon Dioxide, Which Drives Climate Change, Reaches Highest Level In 4 Million Years

  gpb.org - Eric McDaniel

  The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere reached 419 parts per million in May, its highest level in more than four million years, the …

• https://www.sciencealert.com/there-is-more-than-one-anthropocene-scientists-argue-here-s-why-that-s-important

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  Veni,Vidi,Vixi

  Apr 24, 2021
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  Researchers dumped tons of coffee pulp on degraded lands. The reforestation jolt was dramatic

  anthropocenemagazine.org - Berly McCoy

  In an effort to restore landscapes degraded by agriculture and deforestation, countries around the world have pledged to reforest millions of …

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  Key moment in human history reveals our effect on the natural world

  Inverse - by Tara Yarlagadda

  "Peat is an important natural archive." Mother Nature remembers everything. Her records display the full scope of history, as far back as when …

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  The Anthropocene Is a Joke

  The Atlantic - By Peter Brannen

  On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch. Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the Anthropocene. Or so we’re told. Whereas some epochs in Earth history stretch more than 40 million years, this new chapter started maybe 400 years ago, when …