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Human-made materials now outweigh Earth’s entire biomass – The European Scientist
The mass of human-made materials has now reached the same mass as that of all living organisms on Earth, according to groundbreaking study.
While the natural world continues to shrink, the anthropogenic mass the mass of all human-made materials created since the Industrial revolution, including houses, cars, roads, and aeroplanes has grown. Indeed, the number of so-called technospecies has far surpassed the estimated 9 million biological species on the planet, according to a new groundbreaking study published on 10 December in the journal Nature (1).
The team of scientists from the Weizmann Institute in Israel performed a rigorous and…
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