The label“posthumanism”identifies neither a doctrine,nor an intellectual or analytical approach with a defining set of protocols.Rather,we may take“posthumanism”as a term loosely applied to a range of contribution...
In this essay I will investigate the minor yet significant presence of animals in magical realist texts.That presence follows two main threads:what we might call“memories of the future”and“world spirit.”They are d...
Avian extinctions have been relatively well documented in modern history,and in the past millennia,more bird species are known to have gone extinct than species in any other vertebrate class.We examined the biological...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 42171160, 42225105, 42071115, 41972193)。
In current research on the Anthropocene, assessing the impact of human activities via stratigraphic records of sediments and demarcating the Anthropocene epoch globally are critical scientific issues that urgently nee...
This paper is an interim research finding of the 2024 institutional project of “Integration of Research and Teaching” at Jinling Institute of Technology: “Research on Individual Ethical Writing in Western Climate Novels” and the initiation project for high-level researchers at Jinling Institute of Technology: “Research on the Community Imagination in Contemporary British Climate Novels” (jit-b-202326).
As one of the representatives of Anthropocene fiction, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road focuses on the protagonists’ looking for hope for living. It can be inferred when analyzed with Tönnies’ theory that a community is ...
The Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation under contract Nos 2024A1515012628;the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41876059 and 42372213;the Open Research Fund Program of Zhoushan Field Scientific Observation and Research Station for Marine Geo-hazards,China Geological Survey under contract No.ZSORS-22-5;the Shantou University Scientific Research Foundation for Talents under contract No.NTF20028;China-Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN)Maritime Cooperation Fund Project under contract No.12120100500017001;China Geological Survey Projects under contract Nos DD20211553,DD20221710,and DD20230415;the Science and Technology Innovation Fund of Command Center of Integrated Natural Resources Survey Center under contract No.KC20230017.
The deltas serve as the primary interactive zone where terrestrial and marine environments converge,playing a pivotal role in the coastal deposition.In the Holocene,climate changes and sea level fluctuation are the pr...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(No.52301309 and 42107057);the Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.U2243208 and No.42330705).
This editorial summarizes the contributions to the Special Issue Biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration of vulnerable ecosystems in the Anthropocene',established under the Journal of Plant Ecology.
The Anthropocene as a prospective new,ongoing series/epoch must be defensible against all relevant concerns.We address the seven,still-relevant challenges posed to the Anthropocene Working Group by the Chair,Internati...
supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF)grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT)(NRF-2018R1A5A7025409,NP2018-026);the Energy&Mineral Resources Development Association of Korea(EMRD)grant funded by the Korea government(MOTIE)(2021060001).
For the Anthropocene to get recognized as a real geological era,first and foremost its strata must be identified.Several geological formations such as bogs,lakebeds,reefs,ice sheets,speleothems,river estuary deposits,...
This article is an insight into our lifetime and the enduring capacity of the planet—especially regarding water and space, in face of the Homines population growth. This is and will be recorded in the geological time...