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10.10.2024
 

10-13 Oct 2024 - Film screenings and discussions on the Anthropocene between natural scientists and filmmakers (Austrian Film Museum & ÖAW)

10.10.2024
 

Whether or not AI can help heal our planet was debated at the international conference "AI and the Planet in Crisis" (University of Vienna)

08.10.2024
 

8 Oct 2024, 6 pm CEST - Public panel discussion at Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, organised by the Environment and Climate research Hub (ECH)

26.08.2024
 

Recent comment by the AWG in Nature on the significance of the Anthropocene across disciplines even without a formal geological definition.

26.08.2024
 

A new study co-led by UniVie researchers clearly shows the importance of emphasising consensus among climate scientists.

24.07.2024
 

USGS features a new study on palaeontological signatures of the Anthropocene, by a research team including VAN co-founder Michael Wagreich.

Featured Videos


 "Sympoiesis as Natural Technicity: The Allegory of the Lichen"

Keynote by Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech University)

25 January 2024 - Presented at our workshop "Making Kin"

Hosted by the Vienna Anthropocene Network (FWF-Projekt „Landschaft, Leben, Form. Die Poetik des Anthropozäns“)

 "Making Kin with Microbes? The Microbiome in the Posthuman Novel (Elisabeth Klar's 'Es gibt uns')"

Talk by Nicole Sütterlin (Harvard University)

25 January 2024 - Presented at our workshop "Making Kin"

Hosted by the Vienna Anthropocene Network

 Records of Loss

Videofilm by Axel Braun

Created on behalf of the Vienna Anthropocene Network and shown at the panel discussion "Vanishing Ice" in January 2020.

The film traces the history of Austria's largest glacier, Pasterze, contraposing past and present images to record the loss of glacial landscapes over time.