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Anthropocene

  • Today we study dinosaur bones from millions of years ago. How will our era be viewed in millions of years? (Wikimedia Commons)
    Fossils Of The Future
    Walker Rhea
    Our era has a tentative name: the Anthropocene era. There’s debate over when it started, and whether we merit a new geological epoch at all, but some researchers argue that the future fossil record will clearly show both that a new epoch has begun and when it started.
  • Eduardo Brondizio
    Anthropologist Eduardo Brondizio
    Aaron Cain
    Host Aaron Cain speaks with IU anthropologist Eduardo Brondizio about the history of the Amazonian rainforest, and the global and regional effects of accelerating deforestation.