Tag Archive for 'Industrial Revolution'

North dome of the Quelccaya Ice Cap in Peru. Image credit: Paolo Gabrielli / Ohio State University.

Signs of 400-Year-Old Human-Produced Air Pollution Found in Andean Ice Cap

Feb 10, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists led by Dr Paolo Gabrielli of Ohio State University has discovered evidence of air pollution within the Andean ice that predates the...

The marine defaunation experience is much less advanced, even though humans have been harvesting ocean wildlife for thousands of years; the recent industrialization of this harvest, however, initiated an era of intense marine wildlife declines. If left unmanaged, scientists predict that marine habitat alteration, along with climate change, will exacerbate marine defaunation. Image credit: Jenny Huang / CC BY 2.0.

Era of Intense Marine Wildlife Declines is Beginning, Scientists Say

Jan 16, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists led by Prof Douglas McCauley from the University of California, Santa Barbara, has found that the same patterns that led to the collapse...