Our Disastrous Geologic Age Needs a Worse Name, New Book Argues
There’s ongoing debate within the scientific community surrounding the geologic epoch in which we’re living. The period since the end of the last glaciation roughly 12,000 years ago is generally referred to as the Holocene. But some argue that humanity’s impacts on the planet, from climate change to mass extinction, have been significant enough that…
Giving Indigenous People Land Rights is a No-Brainer for Fighting Climate Change
Ever since climate change become a widely-recognized problem, international leaders have been looking at forests as one of the best opportunities for greenhouse gas mitigation. One thing that they overlooked, up until very recently, is that forests aren’t just full of trees. Millions of people live in the world’s remaining forests, and evidence is mounting…