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The world at our feet: Reflections on Earth and its prospects Humans have known for a long time that there was more than the earth beneath our feet—that there was, in fact, a big-e Earth—but it took a while before we figured out our place in relation to the sun and stars. Then space travel allowed us to see our whole home, surrounded by dark nothingness. Image: Mariya Pilipenko We have learned that we can change the Earth in major ways—unintentionally and unpredictably. Two centuries ago the deforestation of the east coast of the U.S. resulted in sediments...

Reconsiderations of past, present, and future in a new environmental humanities book Featuring contributions from scholars representing a range of disciplines, ‘Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities,’ is an outgrowth of the Penn Program for Environmental Humanities. For a geologist, 200 million years may seem like the blink of an eye. To a historian, the 18th century is still highly relevant. And to researchers grappling with climate change, future scenarios provide a compelling reason to act now. In the new book, “Timescales: Thinking Across Eco...

Studying plants from 400 miles up Using remote sensing data, senior Paul Lin looked for signals of climate change in the grasslands of the Great Plains. Paul Lin completed a senior thesis grounded in his dual interests in the environment and data science. (Image: Courtesy of Paul Lin) For the last several decades, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has sent satellites to orbit the earth, using radiation reflected by the planet’s surface to generate data on weather to wildfires to urbanization.  To make sense of...

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