Tag: Anthropocene
Anthropocene: Epoch or Event? – Knowledge
For the second time, geologists have rejected the proposal to declare a new “human era”. Researchers make an unusual suggestion – and warn of a devastating signal. From Christoph von…
SZ climate column: Then the Anthropocene is not called Anthropocene – knowledge
Geologists have long been discussing whether it might not be time to declare the age shaped by humans – the Anthropocene. But an age is not something that can be…
Geologists reject “Anthropocene” as a new epoch – knowledge
Have humans changed the earth so profoundly that they have triggered their own geological era, the Anthropocene? Scientists have been arguing about this question for more than 20 years, after…
Caspar David Friedrich in Hamburg: When nature became an idea
It is the exhibition of the season: The Hamburger Kunsthalle shows the most important works by Caspar David Friedrich and compares them with works by contemporary artists. source site
“Petromelancholia”: Exhibition on the end of the oil age in Rotterdam – Culture
The port of Rotterdam is the ideal location for an art exhibition about the history and the imagined end of the oil age. After the city center was completely destroyed…
"Shared Landscapes" – Berlin Festival: Theater between tree and bark
In “Shared Landscapes”, the Berliner Festspiele lead their audience through a Brandenburg forest for seven hours. An excursion with mosquitoes and antics. source site
Humanity tipped the planet into the Anthropocene, it’s proven and it’s creepy
Humans have tipped the planet into a new era and Lake Crawford, near Toronto in Canada, is proof of this. This site was chosen this Tuesday evening by The Anthropocene…
Crawford Lake in Canada designated as an Anthropocene reference, still not formalized
Microplastics, remnants of oil combustion and fallout from nuclear bomb explosions. This is what lines the bottom of Lake Crawford, near Toronto in Canada, chosen Tuesday as the world reference…
Crawford Lake is said to mark the beginning of the Anthropocene – Knowledge
Are humans changing the planet so massively that we have long been living in the “Anthropocene”? Geologists say yes – and present a place that marks the new earth epoch…
New Earth Age? Interview with Bernd Scherer on the Anthropocene – culture
We live in a new geological era, the Anthropocene. But what does that mean – and what does it change? A conversation with Bernd Scherer, director of the Berlin House…