"The technosphere is a major new phenomenon of this planet – and one that is evolving extraordinarily rapidly" – Professor Mark Williams, University of Leicester An international team led by ...

Billions of tons of carbon are being locked away in the stuff we build, use, and throw out—but it won’t stay trapped forever. Reading time 4 minutes At any given moment, crude oil is being pumped up ...

Nearly every week, I see newspapers and magazines that seemed fine suddenly going out of business. Or a private equity fund buying up a chain of newspapers that had been serving communities for ...

At any given moment, crude oil is being pumped up from the depths of the planet. Some of that sludge gets sent to a refinery and processed into plastic, then it becomes the phone in your hand, the ...

An artificial system is growing on Earth’s surface and it’s entirely our creation. Dubbed the technosphere, the system is made up of all man-made structures — from factories, streets, and landfills to ...

A study in the journal Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics (DTT) concludes that inhaled technosphere insulin (TI-Afrezza) should be considered as an option for individuals with type 1 diabetes who want ...

The planet's technosphere now weighs some 30 trillion tons - a mass of more than 50 kilos for every square metre of the Earth's surface Numbers of technofossil 'species' now outnumber numbers of ...

NEW DELHI: All the things humans have made – from houses and roads to mines and farms, and all the small products that we use – together weigh about 30 trillion tons according to an estimate made by ...

The planet's technosphere now weighs some 30 trillion tons -- a mass of more than 50 kilos for every square meter of the Earth's surface, report investigators. Additionally, the numbers of ...