Paddling on Proxima b?
Good news: if our planet so overcrowded touches that no place is really more for newcomers, there is an alternative: the planet Proxima b is located in the “habitable zone” of Proxima Centauri, the star closest to our sun.
Welcome to the Anthropocene
The geologic era that we are living in (technically the Holocene) has been so profoundly influenced by human activity that some scientists are suggesting we name a new era after ourselves — the Anthropocene.
We have been changing the Earth as long as we have walked upon it..