Human-Made Stuff Outweighs Earth’s Biomass for First Time, Study Finds

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By Olivia RosaneDec 10, 2020, 2:52 pm199 pts
Human made stuff now outweighs life on Earth. That's the finding of a new study published in Nature Wednesday that sought to bring home the full weight of what human activity has done to the planet. "The study provides a symbolic and mass-based quantitative characterization of the Anthropocene – the…

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