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Trees & Towers: Cleaning up the Grey Giant
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Environmental Impact in the Anthropocene. Saturday, 7 December 2013. Cleaning up the Grey Giant. Since 1979, China has undergone rapid economic growth, especially due to market reforms that concentrate on exports. This development led to environmental degradation, which were ignored until recent years (. Today, various environmental issues account for 9% of the country’s GDP, namely to health damage from air pollution and soil nutrient degradation (. Figure 1. A river in China. Although the Communist Par...
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Trees & Towers: The Ice-Cold Bling
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Environmental Impact in the Anthropocene. Wednesday, 18 December 2013. Recently, the Earth Sciences team from the Australian National University discovered the igneous rock intrusion kimberlite, which commonly holds diamonds, in the northern Prince Charles Mountains. The Prince Charles Mountains. Studies confirm that the kimberlite was emplaced by tectonic activity associated with rifting of India from Australia-Antarctica. Find out more about the story. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Trees & Towers: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
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Environmental Impact in the Anthropocene. Friday, 27 December 2013. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Figure 1. Location of the Garbage Patch relatively to the Subtropical Convergence Zone. Figure 2. Greenpeace ad 'how to starve to death on a full stomach' to raise awareness on wildlife destruction in the Garbage Patch. The photo on the right displays the plastic content found in this albatross. So, future geologists, get ready to see plastic-coated strata marking the 20. Reid, David. "Earth's Eighth ...
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Trees & Towers: What Does the Future Hold?
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Environmental Impact in the Anthropocene. Thursday, 2 January 2014. What Does the Future Hold? This will be my last blog post, and I hope you’ve enjoyed Trees and Towers. After all those world issues I’ve troubled you with, I hope we can now chuck Handsome Holocene out the door, and welcome in the Evil Queen Anthropocene. But what does She have in store for us? Droughts, storms, hurricanes, flooding. That’s not all. Our One and Only. How did we get to where we are? What will the world even look. 8216;Met...
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Trees & Towers: Farting Cows Destroy the Planet
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Environmental Impact in the Anthropocene. Tuesday, 31 December 2013. Farting Cows Destroy the Planet. Last month, Nature. On ruminant animals' production of flatulence, which amounts to an alarming 100 million tons of methane released into the atmosphere annually. It is the largest man-made methane source after rice agriculture, and scientists say it is not getting enough attention as needed to combat climate change. For more information, check out the Wired. 6 January 2014 at 14:15. And considering the ...
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Trees & Towers: October 2013
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Environmental Impact in the Anthropocene. Sunday, 27 October 2013. Is an international movement to raise public awareness of climate change. 500 young leaders from all over the world met in Istanbul in June and went home to implement their ideas:. I think that's pretty cool. Saturday, 26 October 2013. To invest or to divest: Is that the question? Source: 'Go Fossil Free' campaign. What exactly is divestment? But Harvard denied SJSF’s plea. Let’s have a look at their argument. 8217; Fair enough. Harvard m...
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Trees & Towers: January 2014
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Environmental Impact in the Anthropocene. Thursday, 2 January 2014. What Does the Future Hold? This will be my last blog post, and I hope you’ve enjoyed Trees and Towers. After all those world issues I’ve troubled you with, I hope we can now chuck Handsome Holocene out the door, and welcome in the Evil Queen Anthropocene. But what does She have in store for us? Droughts, storms, hurricanes, flooding. That’s not all. Our One and Only. How did we get to where we are? What will the world even look. 8216;Met...
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Trees & Towers: An Art Statement: (RES) Dysprosium
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Environmental Impact in the Anthropocene. Monday, 2 December 2013. An Art Statement: (RES) Dysprosium. While reading my 'Dazed and Confused' October issue, I came across (RES) Dysprosium. A part of artist Iain Ball's project 'Energy Pangea'. What's in the picture? It's a sculpture. The photo above was taken in the Akbastau region of Kazakhstan, where state-owned Kazatomprom operate their uranium mines. Their site is notorious for groundwater contamination and hazardous industrial waste. Tangled Up In Blue.
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