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Choose moderation and unburden the earth December 21, 2020, 7:52 PM IST By Narayani Ganesh A new year never fails to inspire us to get on those weighing scales and make a solemn, earnest resolution to shed the extra kilos. Walk regularly, eat right, exercise, are all on the to-do list at least for a couple of weeks until it all gets forgotten in the hurly burly of life. But what of the weight, the burden, we’ve been heaping on Planet Earth? Do we have any thoughts on sheddin...

The Mass of Manmade Stuff Now Equals the Planet’s Biomass The Mass of Manmade Stuff Now Equals the Planet’s Biomass Comments Off on The Mass of Manmade Stuff Now Equals the Planet’s Biomass The mass of human-produced materials, such as concrete, steel and asphalt, has grown to equal the biomass of all life on the planet, according to a study from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Humans are adding new buildings, roads, vehicles and products at a rate that doubles every 20 years...

The Mass of Human-Made Materials Now Equals the Planet’s Biomass, Weizmann Institute Finds We are doubling the mass of the anthropogenic part of the world every 20 years – and the curve is not flattening Weizmann Institute of Science Newswise — The mass of all human-produced materials – concrete, steel, plastics, asphalt, etc. – has now grown to equal the mass of all life on the planet, its biomass. According to a new study from the Weizmann Institute of Science, we are exactly ...

When not busy trying to murder humans in The Matrix, the AI program known as Agent Smith took time to pontificate on our nature as a species. You can’t really consider us mammals, he reckoned, because mammals form an equilibrium with their environment. By contrast, humans move to an area and multiply “until every natural resource is consumed,” making us more like a kind of virus. “Human beings are a disease,” he concluded, “a cancer of this planet. You are a plag...

December 12, 2020 The mass of man-made objects is now greater than that of all biomass by Jake Pearson If there is one thing that humanity is becoming more aware of about this century, it is our influence on the environment. Many of the alarming environmental reports we received Visceral And Easy to understand, Some are very subtle. For example, a new study from Israel says that this year – the mass of man-made objects will exceed all living things on Earth. Pat...

The Mass of Human-Made Material Now Outweighs All Biomass Twitter 0 comments If there’s anything humanity is becoming increasingly aware of this century, it’s our impact on the environment. But while many of the frightening environmental reports we’ve received are visceral and easy to understand, some are far more subtle. A new study out of Israel, for example, says that—likely during this year—the mass of material made by humans will exceed all the biomass on Earth.  The Guardian r...

For the first time in history manmade materials now likely outweigh all life on Earth, scientists said Wednesday in research detailing the "crossover point" at which humanity's footprint is heavier than that of the natural world.

Blood samples are to be taken from up to 19,000 people across all provinces, in the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) two-phase nationwide Covid-19 seroprevalence survey. A graphic of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Image by Hanna Vega Yinon M Bar-On, Avi Flamholz, Rob Phillips, and Ron Milo via Wikimedia, published in Cell Biology by the Numbers (CC BY-SA 4.0)The HSRC has released details of the seroprevalence survey, which joins several other efforts underway or soon to begin...

For the first time in history man-made materials now likely outweigh all life on Earth, scientists said Wednesday in research detailing the "crossover point" at which humanity's footprint is heavier than that of the natural world. The weight of roads, buildings and other constructed or manufactured materials is doubling roughly every 20 years, and authors of the research said

Better make room: Man-made stuff now outweighs all other living things on Earth Its a symbolic study that suggests were building too many things and disregarding nature. Since the Industrial Revolution kicked off, we’ve built a lot of stuff. That’s just part of humanity most would probably say, from roads and homes to all sorts of vehicles, we need things. But we may have gone a bit over the lin here. According to a new study, human-made objects now weigh about as much as all of the living ...