The study authors systematically compared the major environmental impacts of human activity over the past 50,000 years against these two formal requirements. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Interests: Understanding impacts of human activities on the biogeochemistry of ecological systems using a combination of field studies and simulation modeling; conducts research at Harvard Forest LTER. (mbl.edu)
And it may reflect more changes than we realize: recent writing on the Anthropocene period that arguably began during the Industrial Revolution highlights the significant global impact of human activities on Earth's ecosystems. (brooklynrail.org)