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Why did behaviorally modern humans and no other multicellular species in the history of the Earth gain the capacity to transform an entire planet? Biology alone cannot explain this – Homo sapiens is just another …
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Millennia before humans discovered coal, indeed, millennia before there was civilization, Homo sapiens had discovered fire and was making extensive use of it. In a study just published by Bill Ruddiman and myself (Ruddiman and …
My latest: Europe is building a "digital twin" of the Earth, a super-high-resolution climate model, guided by massive observations and eventually running on exascale computers, to forecast fires, floods, droughts -- and the human response. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/europe-building-digital-twin-earth-revolutionize-climate-forecasts
In the wildfire crisis, U.S. authorities are reviving a Native American tradition they had stamped out for centuries: burning small fires to prevent bigger ones. https://www.wsj.com/articles/fighting-wildfires-with-fire-11601502723 via @CulturalFire @WSJ
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