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This image is inspired by the graphic at the bottom illustrating global warming from 1961 to 2010 with each stripe representing the average temperature each year. The graphic was created by Professor Ed Hawkins at the University of Reading in England and has been used widely with over 1 million downloads within a week of

The Anthropocene is a widely used term by scientists and lay people to describe the current era of human impact on the planet. ‘Anthro’ is the Greek word for human and ‘cene’ means new. There are several areas that comprise the Anthropocene such as land use (e.g. human-made material now exceeds the natural biomass), climate

I’ve been learning about epigenetics lately and how it relates to the Anthropocene. Epigenetics processes affect plant and animal behavior through changes in genetic expression but not the underlying genetic markers. It’s a natural response to environmental factors as living things age, grow and evolve. What’s new is the extent of human impact affecting genetic