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Earth Day - Sustainability

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Being a person concerned with the processes taking place on the Earth, I’ve decided to push an existing idea for sustainability. My submission for The Accretionary Wedge #8.

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Happy Darwin Day

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

It’s Charles Darwin’s 199th birthday today. Happy Darwin Day to one and all. To mark this event, I look at Darwin’s epic beard and ponder the evolutionary implications

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The Anthropocene - Time for a New Epoch?

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Is it time to seriously consider the distinct anthropogenic effects on the geological record, seen as a result of the industrial age, as a unique geological epoch?

Posted in academia, extinction, geochemistry, geology, palaeontology | 1 Comment »

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