#EarthSystem #Anthroposphere: "In 2008, the proportion of people residing in the countryside was falling – for the first time in history – below 50 per cent. Today, just 42 per cent of humanity lives in the countryside."
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#Biosphere #Anthroposphere #Colonialism: " #evidence for the value of cultural burning and the need to integrate Indigenous knowledge into contemporary fire management strategies. 'When Country is cared for, #climate does not dictate wildfire'" phys.org/news/2026-10...

#Anthroposphere: "As the researchers write in a paper published in the journal Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, the evidence best fits a timeline of 14,000 to 20,000 years ago for several reasons." phys.org/news/2026-10...

#EarthSystem/#Anthroposphere: "Therefore, while humanity was urbanising at a rate of 1.06 per cent per year between 1950 and 1970, that rate has now dropped to 0.74 per cent, and it will fall to just over 0.6 per cent by 2030." aeon.co/essays/the-p...

#Anthroposphere/#Technology: "The inhabitants of Hohle Fels must have manufactured significant quantities of rope, yet none of it has survived, and all that remains is the most durable component of this ancient production system—the ivory lochstab." phys.org/news/2026-09...

#EarthSystem/#Anthroposphere/#Scenarios: "More than 450,000 people are projected to die from the additional heat brought by the super #ElNiño in the next six months, according to estimates by #climate scientists." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#Anthroposphere: "A University of Kansas #law professor has published an analysis examining the legal #history of the #kiss, tracing how views of one of the seemingly most basic human behaviors are not universal, especially through a legal lens." phys.org/news/2026-09...

#Anthroposphere: "In the journal Antiquity, Dr. Shokouh Khosravi published preliminary findings of the largest known corpus of prehistoric seal impressions in the entire ancient world." phys.org/news/2026-02...