Tag: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
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A New Age Defines Human Impact on Global Water Cycle
Water in the Anthropocene is a three minute film charting the global impact of humans on the water cycle. Evidence is growing that our global footprint is now so significant we have driven Earth into a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene.
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Shifts in Global Water Systems — Markers of a New Geological Epoch: The Anthropocene
A suite of disquieting global phenomena have given rise to the “Anthropocene,” a term coined for a new geologic epoch characterized by humanity’s growing dominance of the Earth’s environment and a planetary transformation as profound as the last epoch-defining event — the retreat of the glaciers 11,500 years ago.