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A New Empirical Constraint on the Prevalence of Technological Species in the Universe

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Was Venus the first habitable world of our solar system?

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Define the Anthropocene in terms of the whole Earth

(2016) Clive Hamilton   NATURE

Gradual and sustained carbon dioxide release during Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a

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Biology in the Anthropocene: Challenges and insights from young fossil records

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Abundance of live 244Pu in deep-sea reservoirs on Earth points to rarity of actinide nucleosynthesis

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Marine Litter Distribution and Density in European Seas, from the Shelves to Deep Basins

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Layering in the Paleocene/Eocene boundary of the Millville core is drilling disturbance

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Exoplanet Habitability

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Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

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Anthropogenic Disturbance of Element Cycles at the Earth’s Surface

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Large-Amplitude Variations in Carbon Cycling and Terrestrial Weathering during the Latest Paleocene and Earliest Eocene: The Record at Mead Stream, New Zealand

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Integrated stratigraphy of Early Aptian black shales in the Boreal Realm: calcareous nannofossil and stable isotope evidence for global and regional processes

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On the likelihood of non-terrestrial artifacts in the Solar System

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The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: A Perturbation of Carbon Cycle, Climate, and Biosphere with Implications for the Future

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A Coherent Signature of Anthropogenic Nitrogen Deposition to Remote Watersheds of the Northern Hemisphere

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Calibrating the End-Permian Mass Extinction

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Ancient ocean on Mars supported by global distribution of deltas and valleys

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The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle

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Stable isotope analysis of the Cretaceous sulfur cycle

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Desert pavement-coated surfaces in extreme deserts present the longest-lived landforms on Earth

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A new lizard assemblage from the earliest eocene (Zone Wa0) of the bighorn basin, wyoming, USA: Biogeography during the warmest interval of the cenozoic

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Oceanic Euxinia in Earth History: Causes and Consequences

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Biological degradation of plastics: A comprehensive review

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Toward an orbital chronology for the early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE1a, ~120 Ma)

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Siberian gas venting and the end-Permian environmental crisis

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Synthetic polymers in the marine environment: A rapidly increasing, long-term threat

(2008) Charles James Moore   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

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Proxy-based reconstructions of hemispheric and global surface temperature variations over the past two millennia

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Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems

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