Earth system engineering: New concept sheds light on how living organisms shape ecosystems on a global scale

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Sep 23, 2025, 11:00 am288 ptsTrendingTop
University of Nebraska–Lincoln's S. Kathleen Lyons is providing a new framework—Earth system engineering—for examining how organisms, including humans, have fundamentally altered ecosystems on a global scale across hundreds, thousands or millions of years.

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