Anthropocene - Science topic

In the aftermath of the unexpected 'cancellation' of the Anthropocene as a geological epoch by the International Union of Geological Sciences in 2024, this session asks how geological theorisations (and geomaterials themselves) nonetheless continue to shape the fields of archaeology and heritage, and, conversely, how these fields in turn shape new...

Keywords: Anthropocene Farming with Alternative Pollinators (FAP) Farmers Marketable habitat enhancement plants (MHEP) Mediterranean Natural enemies

As humanity grapples with escalating environmental degradation, climate instability, and unsustainable technological trajectories, the intersection of cognitive modeling and ecological stewardship becomes an urgent site of inquiry. This article proposes that neuro-inspired computing-computational architectures modeled on biological neural systems-h...

Addressing current environmental crises requires a fundamental shift in our relationship with nature. Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities can guide diverse pathways towards sustainable and just futures, rooted in ancestral knowledge and relational values that challenge the status quo. Indigenous knowledge and practices, however, are still larg...

As the Anthropocene accelerates ecological destabilization, social fragmentation, and technological upheaval, humanity stands at a critical crossroads. This paper proposes a paradigm for civilizational cybernetics-a model that applies information theory, systems thinking, and cybernetic feedback loops to the governance, design, and evolution of com...

In the era of the Anthropocene and the ensuing transitions, the One Health approach is one of the possible answers to rethinking our place on the planet. The aim of this article is to propose an epistemological reflection on the psychosocial processes that concern researchers working with the One Health approach, developing some perspectives that h...

Urbanisation in the context of climate change and rapid population growth presents an urgent need for innovative and sustainable urban planning. This study introduces the Green Blueprint, an original, spatially grounded, and evidence-informed conceptual framework designed to systematically embed ecosystem services into the planning, governance, and...

Byatt’s writing recurrently crosses borders between disciplines. Recent critical studies, like those by Emilie Walezak and Barbara Franchi, have seen this epistemological reassemblage as concurring, in Byatt’s fiction of the 2000s, with an ontological remodelling that increasingly approaches the human in nonhuman terms. In this light, my essay trac...

This Special Issue aims to bring together innovative research addressing the challenges faced by Hymenoptera in the Anthropocene. In light of rapid environmental changes driven by human activities, it is essential to understand how external factors (such as climate change, habitat loss, urbanization, and pollution) interact with intrinsic factors (...

Social‐ecological systems (SES) are coupled systems formed by the intricate interactions between humans and nature. Our movement towards sustainable lifestyles requires a robust understanding of these interactions. Achieving a sustainable win‐win situation for both social and ecological systems, therefore, necessitates a sound scientific framework...

This paper locates three movements for the future of education that will be mapped to understand how they impinge upon contemporary practice as disruptive yet potentially unifying forces; 1) The Anthropocene. The planetary boundaries hypothesis is one of the most proven scientific theories, yet contemporary education still fails to incorporate its...

The aim of this paper is to analyze Garry Kilworth’s animal fantasy fiction in the context of Joan Gordon’s figure of the amborg in order to demonstrate how Kilworth’s re-imagining of interspecies boundaries undermines the Anthropocene’s meta-narrative of human dominance. The three works chosen for analysis—the stand-alone novel Midnight’s Sun (199...

Marking the 70th anniversary of the Libyan-Italian archaeological Mission in the Tadrart Acacus and Messak, this volume offers a multidisciplinary reflection on Africa’s deep past and its enduring legacies in the Anthropocene. By tracing the echoes of human-environment interactions across time, it highlights how archaeological research continues to...

Understanding Earth as a complex, dynamic, and interconnected system is crucial to addressing the contemporary environmental challenges intensified in the Anthropocene. This article reviews foundational Earth System Science (ESS) developments, emphasizing its transdisciplinary nature and highlighting how it has evolved to address critical issues li...

This article attempts to understand death in the Anthropocene; a time so named because of the dominance we as humanity exert over everything around us. A time that seems to be in ruins. Based on these ruins and debris, I seek to understand how the body and death function and what assemblages are possible: what voices are heard and what are the poss...

The first session of the CRIMICLIMA UJI-2023-02 seminar explored the connections between green criminology, planetary justice and environmental criminal law. Through presentations by Gauthier Martens, Rita Faria, Pablo Serra-Palao, and Nigel South, the limitations of existing legislation in addressing the ecological challenges of the Anthropocene w...

This article attempts to understand death in the Anthropocene; a time so named because of the dominance we as humanity exert over everything around us. A time that seems to be in ruins. Based on these ruins and debris, I seek to understand how the body and death function and what assemblages are possible: what voices are heard and what are the poss...

In light of multiple crises in the Anthropocene, the required major transformation in various societal and political realms is fraught with challenges and obstacles. In particular, the areas of education and training play a pivotal role in being able to respond “responsibly” to these am-biguities. Using two examples, one from the practice of politi...

In the book, Restless Tides of Time, Sea-Level Change: Past, Present and Prescient, Bilal Haq invites readers on a sweeping odyssey across Earth's watery epochs, a narrative distilled from decades of research, weaving scientific exactitude with story-teller's flair. From the primeval watery stirrings of the Precambrian to the Anthropocene's rapidly...

This study refines and advances the Framework for evaluating Scientific Literacy (SL) within science textbooks/curricula by integrating cognitive, affective, and sustainability dimensions. Through a systematic review and analysis of 22 studies, the research identifies emerging themes to restructure the Cansiz and Cansiz (Journal of Baltic Science E...

Sustainability dilemmas such as climate change and biocultural diversity loss have resulted in part from dominant Cartesian and Newtonian modes of thinking, which separate mind and matter, object and subject, social from ecological systems, foregrounding determinacy and linearity. In order to meet widespread calls for transformation away from unsus...

The resilience of many coral reef communities has been diminished in the Anthropocene. Nowhere is this more evident than in southeast Florida, where coral cover rarely recovers following increasingly frequent disturbances and has resulted in community change to resilient taxa such as octocorals. Understanding community dynamics and the demographic...

This paper explores feminist and anti-speciesist critiques of the Anthropocene concept, which, while raising awareness of global ecological crises, often universalizes human responsibility and obscures the structural power dynamics behind environmental emergency. Drawing on thinkers such as Jason W. Moore, Françoise Vergès, and Donna Haraway, the p...

Human disturbance is a major threat to natural ecosystems globally. However, how disturbances alter the interplay of deterministic and stochastic processes underlying community structure and diversity remains to be clarified, as evidence from natural systems is particularly lacking. Here, we investigated how the taxonomic, functional, and phylogene...

Damianos provides his views on the significance of the March 2024 decision by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) to reject the proposal of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG), the body we represent, to formalize the Anthropocene as a series/epoch of the Geological Time Scale. He draws upon ‘four years of ethnographic observation’ o...

Aim Habitat conversion, in general, and urbanisation, in particular, are thought to create ecological filters that eliminate some species while simultaneously replacing them with others that thrive under novel conditions. The specific nature of these filters is unclear, but morphology may play an important role. Here, we seek to assess which lizard...

At the threshold of the Anthropocenic impasse, where the digital intertwines with the biological, we face a planetary challenge: how to think-and care-for health in an age increasingly governed by artificial intelligence. The digitalization of healthcare systems, often presented as a promise of optimization and universality, is in fact producing ne...

This response advocates for the conceptual utility of displacement and the potential emergence of Global Displacement Studies (GDS). I argue that displacement provides a more expansive analytical framework than migration studies, refugee studies, or forced migration studies, capturing the broader structural forces-economic, political, historical-fo...

School science education needs to change its aims, content and pedagogies if it is to prepare students for the challenges of the Anthropocene. Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing people and other organisms. We argue for embedding EcoHealth as a curriculum aim within school science, as well as other subjects. Findings from a st...

In this article, we revisit the contentious history of personification to explore its potential for shifting the aesthetics of science education. We argue that personification can act as a boundary object to open up new aesthetic possibilities for science and education, toward an aesthetics of personhood. Drawing on philosophy, Indigenous knowledge...

Coral reefs have experienced widespread and accelerated decline, driven by a combination of global and local anthropogenic stressors. To contextualize these changes, we compared the composition of coral reef communities on Curaçao between 1973 and 2023 with that of corals preserved in fossil reefs from the Last Interglacial period (128–116 ka). The...

This article brings together key insights from Billy Graef, Brendan Hokowhitu, and Holly Thorpe to critically examine the relationship between sport and the Anthropocene. Together, each writer explores how sport both shapes, and is shaped by, environmental transformations, raising questions about its role in the accelerating ecological crisis. They...

The Anthropocene calls for collaboration between heterogeneous actors and knowledge about indisputable planetary boundaries and environmental cha(lle)nges. One dimension of such collaboration is interdisciplinary efforts, where anthropology’s potential contributions often fall under the radar. Based on a field study and ten semi-structured intervie...

Anthropogenic climate change has caused widespread loss of species biodiversity and ecosystem productivity worldwide, with amphibians being particularly affected. Predicting the future of amphibians, a critical group for maintaining biodiversity and for balancing ecosystem structure and function, is essential for effective conservation planning in...

This article brings together key insights from Billy Graeff, Brendan Hokowhitu, and Holly Thorpe to critically examine the relationship between sport and the Anthropocene. Together, each writer explores how sport both shapes and is shaped by environmental transformations, raising questions about its role in the accelerating ecological crisis. They...

How can we ethically include nonhuman animals during methodological considerations in organizational and business ethics research? Additionally, what methodological opportunities and challenges do multispecies research approaches present for these research areas? Building on critical posthumanist theory, the feminist ethic-of-care tradition in anim...

One manifestation of the cascading ecological crises that characterize our current moment is a weakening of any sense of futurity. The implacable escalation of the climate crisis, the amplification of which is already inevitable given the carbon already in the atmosphere, has the effect of eroding any forward‐facing enterprise and concentrating our...

In the Anthropocene, conservation planning must adapt to rapid environmental changes driving the global biodiversity crisis. The impacts of climate and land-use change are particularly severe in biodiversity hotspots like the Mediterranean Basin, where unique taxa and ecosystems are increasingly at risk. To address these challenges, we conducted a...

The Anthropocene era is characterized by the far-reaching impacts of human activities on the biosphere, making it a critical time for ecological conservation and management. One of the most direct and ongoing anthropogenic threats to marine mammals, particularly small cetaceans, stems from fisheries. This study provides the initial evidence of odon...

Mangrove ecosystems, vital coastal habitats, face unprecedented challenges in the Anthropocene due to the interplay of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. Climate change-driven stressors, including sea level rise, altered precipitation regimes, and increased storm intensity, threaten mangrove survival by modifying hydrological and salinity cond...

The Anthropocene suggests that human action represents the most important geological force acting on the planet, causing climate change and, ultimately, endangering all future life. The hegemonic food system represents an important component of this human action, given the irresponsible use of predatory techniques against Nature. Since nutrition is...

This short text explores the phenomenon of overtourism and its impacts on cities like Venice, drawing from political geography, critical development studies, urban studies, and the environmental humanities. It examines how the expansion of extractivist dynamics – traditionally focused on natural resources – now extends to social, economic, cultural...

Semi-natural Grasslands have developed into biodiverse habitats as a consequence of anthropogenic activity, such as extensive agriculture, so they are inextricably linked to the Anthropocene period. In Finland, as in much or the Palaearctic Region, the amount of seminatural grassland habitat (meadow) peaked during the early 19th century. By the lat...

This report examined the escalating global environmental challenges that threaten ecological integrity and human well-being in the Anthropocene. It explores the evolution of global environmental governance through landmark frameworks such as Agenda 21, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), highlighti...

Climate change has fundamentally disrupted the stability of infectious disease transmission, especially for vector-borne epidemics such as dengue, malaria, and Zika. Existing AI forecasting models often suffer from poor transferability, limited interpretability, and weak generalization under heterogeneous climatic conditions. We propose a unified L...

The Anthropocene suggests that human action represents the most important geological force acting on the planet, causing climate change and, ultimately, endangering all future life. The hegemonic food system represents an important component of this human action, given the irresponsible use of predatory techniques against Nature. Since nutrition is...

The article reviews two films about animals — Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966) and Eo (Jerzy Skolimowski, 2022) — which both adopt motives that appeared in Apuleius’ novel Metamorphoses, or the Golden Ass (2nd century AD). Special attention in the article is given to the methods of the animal cinematographic representation, which despite...

Worsening global challenges in the Anthropocene demand complex, adaptive solutions grounded in a systems-level understanding of coupled social and environmental dynamics. However, existing modeling approaches often fall short due to disciplinary silos, limited scalability, and the absence of shared ontological frameworks. Model-Based Systems Engine...

This paper describes three phases that cities go through for the delivery of municipal water and sanitation services, identifying the main political, technological, socio-institutional, financial, public health forces of disequilibria that push cities along this development path. Data from the Global Water Intelligence and the World Bank’s Internat...

This is the first full-length book to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work through contemporary ecological thinking, offering a wide range of artistic and scholarly responses to the ecological crises provoked, mediated or challenged by Beckett’s work. Beckett was not an environmental artist, but his oeuvre, poised between forms of precarity and hope,...

Antimicrobial resistance, as well as the emergence and re-emergence of some pathogens constitute two major aspects of the Anthropocene epoch [...]

Urban and peri‐urban lakes are undergoing significant ecological deterioration in the fast‐changing Anthropocene, leading to toxic algal proliferation jeopardizing ecosystem services and public health. Nevertheless, the ecological response of these lakes to anthropogenic disturbances, management interventions, and climate change remains inadequatel...

Ecological restoration has increasingly shifted focus towards restoring ecosystem functions rather than attempting to recreate original, pre-disturbance conditions. This approach, known as functional restoration, prioritizes the rehabilitation of key processes that sustain ecosystems. Functional restoration is especially relevant in severely degrad...

Since 2015 LTER-Italy researchers have planned and realized, the informal science-communication initiative known as Cammini (Trails in Italian) LTER. Its primary aims were raising awareness of ecological issues, sharing research experiences and fostering a sense of belonging that unites those who live in a territory and those who study it (D'Alelio...

The Anthropocene, marked by significant environmental transformation, underscores the intricate relationships among geodiversity, biodiversity, and social diversity in shaping ecosystem functions. This study introduces the concept of Whole System Diversity (WSD) as a framework for integrating these three dimensions to understand, sustain, and resto...

During the Anthropocene, accelerating human influences on climate and land cover, together with pollution are major drivers of environmental change. These changes contribute to the societal challenges that Agenda 2030 and the SDGs address. Science is called upon to provide an evidence base that society can rely on when navigating the trade-offs and...

In an era of unprecedented environmental change, the need for long-term, integrated ecosystem research has never been more urgent. The first eLTER Science Conference brings together a vibrant community of researchers, site and platform coordinators, and visionaries dedicated to understanding and safeguarding the complex systems that sustain life on...

Peatlands, though covering only 3 % of the global land surface, play an active role in the Critical Zone (CZ) by mediating substantial water and carbon exchanges with adjacent aquifers, surface waters, and the atmosphere. These ecosystems provide key services, such as carbon and water storage and local climate regulation, addressing contemporary ch...

Understanding the complexity and interdependence of systems in the Anthropocene is essential for making informed decisions about societal challenges spanning geophysical, biophysical, sociocultural, and sociotechnical domains. This paper explores the potential of Hetero-functional Graph Theory (HFGT) as a quantification tool for converting Model-ba...

En este artículo se analiza la dimensión y las posibilidades que ofrece para los historiadores de la educación el marco de la historia decolonial de la educación. El trabajo no busca explorar potenciales nuevas temáticas que se puedan desarrollar a partir de esta perspectiva historiográfica, sino indagar en el enfoque que proyecta la opción decolon...

Global biodiversity is changing at unprecedented rates during the Anthropocene. Whereas current biodiversity patterns can be observed directly, information from the recent past is far less easily retrieved yet urgently needed to understand present observations and predict future developments. For plants, herbaria offer such a unique glimpse into th...

Resilience is a property of social, ecological, social-ecological and biophysical systems. It describes the capacity of a system to cope with, adapt to and innovate in response to a changing surrounding. Given the current climate change crisis, ensuring conditions for a sustainable future for the habitability on the planet is fundamentally dependen...

Levels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma-related distress, and subsyndromal PTSD, (here “PTS”) among combat soldiers and first responders are of international concern. In the broader population, a PTS global epidemic is attending trauma associated with the threatscape of the Anthropocene (increased extreme weather events, natural dis...

The concept of sustainable development has long been heralded as a guiding principle for balancing economic growth, social equity, and environmental protection. However, recent scientific advances in Earth system science-particularly the planetary boundaries framework-suggest that traditional models of sustainability may be fundamentally inadequate...

Translocations are central to large carnivore restoration efforts, but inadequate monitoring often inhibits effective conservation decision‐making. Extinctions, reintroductions, illegal killings, and high inbreeding levels of the Central European populations of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) typify the carnivore conservation challenges in the Anthropoce...

This paper explores the intersection of quantum cognition and legacy technological innovation within the context of the Anthropocene-a geological epoch defined by human impact on Earth's systems. By integrating cognitive science, quantum theory, and sustainability studies, we propose a paradigm shift in how technological progress is conceptualized...

Introduction Nowadays, light pollution due to the multiplication of outdoor lightings has become a worldwide disturbance for many species. A large amount of scientific literature shows that this sensory stressor has adverse effects on several taxa. However, existing reviews tend to conclude a lack of primary research on terrestrial non-flying mamma...

As climate change accelerates and artificial intelligence (AI) systems grow increasingly powerful, the intersection of environmental sustainability and synthetic intelligence raises a profound ethical conundrum. On one side lies the urgent task of mitigating carbon emissions to preserve planetary habitability; on the other, the rise of intelligent...

The ecological crisis of the Anthropocene demands not only technological solutions but a fundamental shift in how intelligence-natural or artificial-interfaces with planetary systems. This article proposes the theoretical and practical groundwork for developing an eco-conscious artificial mind, capable of ethical reflection, environmental empathy,...

As humanity confronts the ecological, social, and existential consequences of the Anthropocene, it becomes evident that a new philosophical and practical foundation is required to sustain a just and habitable world. This article proposes a shift from materialist paradigms-centered on economic growth, physical accumulation, and mechanistic science-t...

As humanity confronts the ecological, social, and existential consequences of the Anthropocene, it becomes evident that a new philosophical and practical foundation is required to sustain a just and habitable world. This article proposes a shift from materialist paradigms-centered on economic growth, physical accumulation, and mechanistic science-t...

As humanity enters the Anthropocene-a geologic epoch defined by human impact on the Earth's systems-there is an urgent need to reimagine the ethical foundations of our relationship with nature. Traditional ethical paradigms, rooted in anthropocentrism and material utility, are ill-equipped to manage the complexity and fragility of Earth's interdepe...

Project Plan 'Materiality, particularly that of bodies and natures, has long been an extraordinarily volatile site for feminist theory-so volatile, in fact, that the guiding rule of procedure for most contemporary feminisms requires that one distance oneself as much as possible from the tainted realm of materiality by taking refuge within culture,...

In the face of escalating environmental crises, the ethical management of finite resources and CO₂ emissions becomes paramount. This paper explores the philosophical framework of Humanitatis Rationalis-a rational humanism grounded in informational ontology-and its ethical implications for sustainable resource stewardship and climate action. Viewing...

This paper explores the philosophical framework of Humanitatis Rationalis-a paradigm that integrates classical humanism with systems rationality-and its implications for the emergence of a global ecological consciousness. As ecological crises challenge anthropocentric and extractivist worldviews, Humanitatis Rationalis offers a coherent epistemolog...

Within the contemporary context of multiple and overlapping crises, which critical scholars often call the Anthropocene epoch, commons and commoning have been presented as a promising way to approach and address the emerging problems. Commons are often presented as spaces antithetical to capitalism, governed in a radical democratic fashion. We argu...

The proliferation of plastic waste since the 20th century has exacerbated pollution problems despite technological advances in waste management. In Argentina, 35% of municipal solid waste is discarded in untreated open dumps, causing environmental and public health risks. This study focused on detecting and mapping open dumps in the most densely po...

Questions of justice are becoming increasingly important in the global context of human-made climate crises. Drawing on new anthropological theories the editors Olaf Zenker and Anna-Lena Wolf develop a conceptual framework that can capture different ideas of justice from multiple contexts. They propose disassembling the name-giving global subject o...

Hope has become essential today, as science, reason and traditional forms of governance appear exhausted and incapable of addressing emergencies, compounded crises, and entangled risks. This introduction surveys the contemporary politics of hope and engages with the problematics of agency, governance, and negation in the Anthropocene. As we outline...

Freshwater ecosystems and their diverse plant and animal communities are neglected, under-appreciated and threatened by the multiple interacting stressors of the Anthropocene era. Climate change is the most ominous threat on the horizon and freshwater ecosystems are particularly vulnerable. Climate change, multiple stressor syndromes and other unce...

Turtles and tortoises (chelonians) possess a variety of ecological characteristics, including long lifespans and protective shells, which have enabled them to survive and adapt to environmental challenges since the Triassic period. However, many characteristics of chelonians have turned into disadvantages for their populations in the Anthropocene....

In this article, I utilize the New Materialism framework to explore the interpretation of baduanjin , a traditional Chinese fitness Qigong, in the Anthropocene, suggesting that its surge in popularity in China is the result of the entanglement of nature and culture. I conducted 14 in-depth interviews with baduanjin practitioners across China. The r...

Fires have historically played a natural role in shaping ecosystems, contributing to biodiversity and ecological renewal. However, in the Anthropocene, the interplay of climate change and human activities has exacerbated fire frequency and intensity, with cascading impacts on soil health, biodiversity, and ecosystem resilience. This study highlight...

The article offers an interpretation of the key theses of Bruno Latour’s book “Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy,” focusing on their development in the idea of an empathetic interface. The aim of the study is to reveal how Latour's critique of modernity, the idea of hybrid collectivities, and the reconsideration of the ro...

Caddisflies larvae have been constructing cases made from vegetation or sediment grains for millions of years, but in the Anthropocene many alternative building materials have become available. We collected caddisfly cases in three distinctive locations in The Netherlands, differing in degree of urbanization and pollution from sewage overflows. Thi...

Crown-of-thorns sea stars (CoTS; Acanthaster spp.) are among the most prominent corallivorous invertebrates, contributing greatly to the plight of tropical coral reefs in the Anthropocene. Much of the success of CoTS, and their propensity to undergo major population irruptions, are likely tied to inherent biological traits. Juvenile CoTS feed on co...

Introduction. Library and information science (LIS) has predominantly focused on human-centric systems and organisations. However, a growing movement is now exploring the role of nonhumans in shaping the sciences and practices of information. This paper introduces the emerging field of multispecies information science, which expands LIS by recognis...

In the Anthropocene era, architecture and construction confront the challenge of minimizing environmental impact, as cities and communities are tasked with addressing the pressures of the climate crisis, urban population growth, and the need for resilience. Simultaneously, the Fourth Industrial Revolution introduces new, cutting-edge tools and tech...

Aquatic habitats exert some unique selective pressures on parasites, from the properties of water as a medium to the fragmented nature of freshwater bodies dispersed across a terrestrial landscape. We first discuss some of the key features of aquatic habitats that may impact parasite evolution. We then summarise what is known of microevolutionary p...

Persistence of wild species in human‐altered environments is difficult, in part because challenges to fitness are complex when multiple environmental changes occur simultaneously, which is common in the Anthropocene. This complexity is difficult to conceptualize because the nature of environmental change is often highly context specific. A mechanis...

The pressing environmental crises of the Anthropocene are inherently connected to ocean health. Yet, the oceans are currently in a critical state. The article explores the idea of giving rights to oceans as one way to enhance their legal protection. It draws on scholarship and practice regarding the existing legal rights of nature, and discusses th...

The contemporary paranormal fantasy romance genre targeting young adult readership has experimented with an impressive variety of interspecies pairings while recycling the trope of impossible/forbidden love as a means of self-discovery. However, after the human–vampire, human–werewolf ( Twilight ), human–angel ( Fallen ), human–cyborg ( Cinder ), a...

IAS imposes significant impacts on native ecosystems and economies. Current assessment methods for economic losses predominantly rely on habitat suitability estimation and database extrapolation, often lacking integration of causal inference and dynamic spatial drivers. H. cunea, a pervasive invasive pest in Jiangsu Province, China, exemplifies thi...

Since 1800, the concentration of greenhouse gases like nitrous oxide (N2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2) has significantly increased due to anthropogenic activities. Oceanic anthropogenic CO2 (Cant) uptake from the atmosphere has been quantified and periodically re‐evaluated given the implications for climate change. However, the potential oceanic uptak...

The zombie genre has a number of characteristics that allow for a more thorough consideration of the link between the fictive zombie outbreaks and the problems of the Anthropocene. The present study aims to scrutinize why this issue can be considered even when it is not directly addressed, as in The Walking Dead series (2010–2022), which is analyze...