"The technosphere is a major new phenomenon of this planet – and one that is evolving extraordinarily rapidly" – Professor Mark Williams, University of Leicester An international team led by ...

An artificial system is growing on Earth’s surface and it’s entirely our creation. Dubbed the technosphere, the system is made up of all man-made structures — from factories, streets, and landfills to ...

At any given moment, crude oil is being pumped up from the depths of the planet. Some of that sludge gets sent to a refinery and processed into plastic, then it becomes the phone in your hand, the ...

Nearly every week, I see newspapers and magazines that seemed fine suddenly going out of business. Or a private equity fund buying up a chain of newspapers that had been serving communities for ...

Billions of tons of carbon are being locked away in the stuff we build, use, and throw out—but it won’t stay trapped forever. Reading time 4 minutes At any given moment, crude oil is being pumped up ...

In the face of a flailing economy and dwindling tourist dollars, Dubai presses on–this time with the Death Star-like Technosphere, a solar-powered biological bubble that will simulate the effects of ...

The planet's technosphere now weighs some 30 trillion tons -- a mass of more than 50 kilos for every square meter of the Earth's surface, report investigators. Additionally, the numbers of ...

We can now quantify how much humans have changed the surface of the planet. A scientific analysis of all the human-made substances on Earth—including “houses, factories, farms, mines, roads, airports ...

The planet's technosphere now weighs some 30 trillion tons - a mass of more than 50 kilos for every square metre of the Earth's surface Numbers of technofossil 'species' now outnumber numbers of ...