Foreword / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Introduction / W. John Kress and Jeffrey K. Stine -- I A changing planet -- The advent of the Anthropocene / J. R. McNeill -- Thinking like a mountain in the ...

This sobering Canadian eco-documentary hypothesizes that the world has entered a new era in the geological time scale: the Anthropocene epoch. It’s the age in which human activity, for the first time, ...

In the last few years, scientists have suggested that Earth has entered a new geologic era, an age when human activity—climate change, deforestation, urbanization—is altering the planet. Artists too ...

In my weekly column for World Politics Review, I examine the thirtieth Human Development Report, outlining a few of its biggest findings and identifying three promising mechanisms to encourage ...