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Human Handiwork’s Mass Exceeds World Lifeforms
Human handiwork, all we’ve produced, now outweighs the plants and animals evolved over 3 billion years: a global takeover.
By Tim Radford
Our domination of the planet may have just reached a new level: human handiwork now probably surpasses all that evolution has placed on the Earth. The mass of all the things made by humans − cities, roads, factories, houses, cars, trains, machines, bricks, concrete, steel, glass, tile, asphalt and so on − may have just overtaken the mass of all the living things on the planet.
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Seven Years to Ground Zero for the Climate Crisis?
The Earth could cross an ominous temperature threshold in just seven years. A new study cuts the time for drastic action.
By Tim Radford
Or it could exceed what is supposed to be the globally-agreed target for containing catastrophic climate change − just 1.5°C above the average level for most of the last 10,000 years − a little later, in the year 2042.
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Fire and Flood Menace Parts of Us and Bangladesh
Fire and flood are on the rise. Bangladesh and New York face more flooding: the American West may see more forests burn.
By Tim Radford
More extreme weather is on the way for the hapless residents of Bangladesh, New York and the western US, facing the prospect of worsening fire and flood.
There is a new future for New York. By the close of the century, thanks to sea level rise and global heating, parts of it could be swept by hurricane-driven catastrophic floods almost every year.