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Is This Our Play?

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A Prehistoric Reminder of the Immense Damage We’ve Done

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Oct 10, 2019 Carbon dioxide levels are higher now than in all human history, and prehistory too: a low-carbon world nurtured our distant forebears. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Apr 15, 2019 Climate change is no mere "problem." We are in a planetary transition and will survive only if we rapidly create new forms of civilization. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

New Atlas Traces the Scar Humans Have Inflicted on Earth

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Jul 2, 2018 Yet another global survey has identified the devastation of the Anthropocene. By 2050, the landscapes will be degraded even more. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Long-Lasting Civilization May Be a Pipe Dream

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Apr 19, 2018 Astrobiology—the search for alien life—suggests a lesson for us here on earth: Civilization may not be sustainable over geological eras but, rather, self-destroying. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Path to a New Earthly Epoch

Tim Radford / Climate News Network Nov 25, 2017 Our planet has entered the Anthropocene, some scientists argue—a new geologic era of human modification of the natural world. The latest evidence? Roads. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Book Suggests That as a Result of Our Environmental Actions, We Are Contemplating Our Own Extinction

By Kieran Cooke / Climate News Network Apr 3, 2017 Human mistreatment of the planet is ushering in a new geological era—one that will not be pleasant, according to public ethics professor Clive Hamilton's "Defiant Earth." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How to Stop Capitalism’s Deadly War With Nature

Paul Street / Truthdig Sep 14, 2016 It's not humanity alone that threatens life on earth. The bigger culprit is an economic and political system that relies on endless global appropriation of cheap food, energy, raw materials and labor. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Emissions Could Make Earth Uninhabitable

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Feb 27, 2016 Researchers predict that the hothouse effect of runaway greenhouse gases would ultimately boil our planet dry and make it incapable of sustaining life. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Humans’ Mark on Planet Prompts Scientists to Consider Renaming the Epoch

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Jan 13, 2016 The postindustrial impacts that humans have had on the earth and its atmosphere may pinpoint the mid-20th century as the start of a new geological epoch. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Markets Cannot Solve the Climate Crisis

By Valerie Brown / Climate News Network Dec 28, 2015 “Free range” capitalism is one of the causes of climate change, and it must be reformed if we are to solve the crisis, Andreas Malm writes in his new book, "Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Sixth Extinction

Louise Rubacky / Truthdig Jul 26, 2014 Many now-extinct species had traits that were advantageous for millions of years, until some change made them lethal. Mostly, Homo sapiens are that change. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )