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The significant scale of human impact on our planet has changed the course of Earth history, an international team of scientists. The significant scale of human impact on our planet has changed the ...

From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day globalized society, readers will learn how humans interacted―and still interact―with the environment around them, as well as the ...

The Congo River is the world's only major river to cross the Equator twice, a rare feat shaped by ancient geological forces.

We all need to look up from our phones long enough to see the real world — not just to keep from running into something, but to truly look at everything that surrounds us. We would better appreciate ...

“Native people are still here regardless of what the settler colonial state might try and say. You can uplift and amplify that ongoing relationship with the land here and now.” Climate change is a ...

(CNN) — Scientists have identified the geological site that they say best reflects a proposed new epoch called the Anthropocene — a major step toward changing the official timeline of Earth’s history.