Man has come to dominate the globe via industrial ingenuity and scientific acumen. This has resulted in the flowering of about 208 minerals that are man-made in nature. Such an event had hardly been...
On the occasion of Yuletide in 1968, Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders took a photograph of the scene from his spacecraft while in orbit around the moon.The image shows half of our planet like a big...
While the past geological eons, such as the Pleistocene and the Holocene, lasted thousands of years in regard to their effects on the earth and its climate, the current one has been termed the...
Humanity's impact on the environmental world seems to be heralding a new scientific epoch.According to the Smithsonian Magazine, the Smithsonian Institute's issued its first official statement about...