Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. The iconic indie filmmaker’s latest work, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost a century ago, the revolutionary idea of the biosphere gained a foothold in science. Defined as the collective activity of all life on Earth—the tapestry of actions of every microbe, plant, and ...

Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. At Kílala Lelum, we walk alongside our ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI: All the things humans have made – from houses and roads to mines and farms, and all the small products that we use – together weigh about 30 trillion tons according to an estimate made by ...