Welcome to Yosemite, the new Pyrocene Park
Binge-burning of fossil fuels has put afterburners on our millennia-long process of ending the Pleistocene, its ice and its mammoths. Welcome to the Pyrocene.
Our new age of fire
by Stephen Pyne | Sep 6, 2021
As wildfires explode in the West but even in Greenland, fire expert Steve Pyne helps us understand the “pyrocene,” the planetary age of fire, one that we have created.
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