Anthropocene Humans have only been on earth for 200,000 years, yet our effect on the globe has been so tremendous that experts all across the world are pushing for our era in Earth's history to be dubbed

GMTED2010: Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010

Geologic time is vast and incomplete. Scientists can look at the stratigraphy of rock record and ascertain a great wealth of information about the history of our planet, but any single outcrop or section

This journey starts at a pristine lake. The lake may seem somewhat arbitrary; a random expanse in the upper reaches of a vast watershed that goes in many directions and bisects the land. There are other

Les scientifiques ne sont pas d'accord, moi j'ai mon avis... Et si on parlait du vôtre? Et encore dans la vidéo je ne parle même pas du fait que nous chauffons tous notre maison en hiver, et que l'hiver

C4 grasses, grazers, and fire as a natural resource available to Homo, led to the spread of open grasslands C4 grasses are competitive in open grasslands, the C4 pathway of carbon fixation lets the grass

Alcelaphines (the hartebeest-wildebeest-blesbok group) appear about 5 million years (VRBA, E. S. 1979), and there is an increase in alcelaphines with the Pleistocene, for example at younger sites in the

Pliopapio alemui (Frost, 2001) shows morphology that is intermediate between that of more terrestrial forms, such as extant Papio and Theropithecus, and more arboreal forms, such as extant colobines, and

Papionin dispersal patterns largely mirror those of early hominins (Gilbert C.C., 2008), radiating from the Afar region and outwards throughout East Africa and down to South Africa, which would be expected

Hello steemit people of the universe! I live and make art in the blue dot of Birmingham in the red, red state of Alabama. I'm a vegetarian for 30+ years and mom to three beautiful magic cats & dozens

Our planet has a carbon problem -- if we don't start removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, we'll grow hotter, faster. Chemical engineer Jennifer Wilcox previews some amazing technology to scrub

In this perspective-shifting talk, Danny Hillis prompts us to approach global issues like climate change with creative scientific solutions. Taking a stand for solar geoengineering, he looks at controversial

در زمین‌شناسی، دوره‌های مختلفی برای عمر کره‌ی زمین شناخته شده است. آخرین دوره‌ای که به‌طور رسمی در زمین‌شناسی تعریف شده است، دوره‌ی هولوسن است که از حدود ده هزار سال پیش شروع شده است. این دوره شامل تمام

The mural this drawing is for disappeared in Harlem a few weeks ago.

The road to energy efficiency is in theory a sustainability sweepstakes… Who needs Russian gas, if we could get all the heat we need from our own surplus? Who needs Middle Eastern oil, when we can integrate

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This infographic helps one understand how we got where we are - as more of reciprocal causation vs. an evil cabal socially engineering the world. Source: Evolving the Anthropocene: linking multi-level

The present reeks of mediocrity, melting and the hydrogen bomb. — Kop Magritte | More anthropocene art (quotes) here:

No boy ever steps in the same polluted river twice, for it’s not the same river and he will be not the same boy. — Heraclopjes | I just published “the river” |

I just published “bondage” |