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Aug 31, 2016 · The Anthropocene is a new, present day epoch, in which scientists say we have significantly altered the Earth through human activity. These changes include global warming, habitat loss, changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere, oceans and soil, and animal extinctions. Although the new epoch has yet to be officially declared, the ...
Sep 2, 2016 · 谈意义多没劲,我们来总结一下地层特征吧~. 人类世地层特征 v1.0版(持续更新中). 1.各主要盆地内的同沉积地层遭受大范围改造. (1)有机地球化学特征分布异常:农残、化工厂污染等;——(有机物污染残留). (2)沉积物粒度分布特征异常:填海材料 ...
从地质学的宙、代、纪、世、期、时序列比拟出新生代的人类世(Anthropocene)概念,学术上讲无可无不可。但人类世(Anthropocene)的概念一旦提出,必然动摇‘人类中心主义’。 第四纪的全新世地质学新纪元——“人类世”起讫何时?
To officially say that we live in the Anthropocene – that is, declare the Holocene over and the Anthropocene already underway – we would have to draw an unequivocal line between the two. We’d have to agree on a point in time when human impacts on the environment became large enough to warrant an official change in scientific nomenclature.
Grimes为自己创作的虚拟形象WarNymph. 在我看来Miss Anthropocene的最大成功之处在于其对专辑概念的出色表达,没有落入大部分当代流行音乐人所谓“概念专辑”的有名无实的尴尬境地。. 流媒体时代“概念专辑”这一概念显得愈发廉价:在唱片时代一个完整的贯穿 ...
一个新世的开启,意味着出现了新的标志性事件。. 本周,由34名科学家组成的人类世工作组(Anthropocene Working Group, AWG)投票决定确立一个新的地质年代——人类世(the Anthropocene),以表明人类活动对地球造成的巨大变化。. 从 Nature 发的文章中看,应该是大会 ...
Feb 27, 2023 · The pace of technological change is much faster now than it has been in the past, according to Our World in Data. It took 2.4 million years for our ancestors to control fire and use it for cooking, but 66 years to go from the first flight to humans landing on the moon. AI could have a fundamentally transformative impact on our world, with many ...
Mar 7, 2023 · You’re not alone if it seems there are multiple challenges affecting the world simultaneously - it can be summed up by the word ‘polycrisis’. First coined in the 1970s, the word has been popularized by the historian Adam Tooze to describe the coming together of multiple crises. Here, Tooze explains what the concept is about and how it can ...
Apr 11, 2022 · The climate crisis is making many extreme weather events more frequent and more severe. There are two main types of extreme weather – weather-related and climate-related. Weather-related events are shorter incidents such as tornadoes, deep freezes or heat waves. Climate-related events last longer or are caused by a buildup of weather-related ...