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12.01.2024
 

Millions of defunct anthropogenic objects are circling through Earth's orbit - a growing risk in the global space race (article in German)

13.12.2023
 

Mimicking 'plant power' through artificial photosynthesis by capturing the sun's energy in chemical compounds could drive the solar energy revolution.

05.12.2023
 

5 Dec 2023, 7:00 pm CET - Panel discussion on climate action and intergenerational justice at Volkstheater Wien (organised by LBI)

05.12.2023
 

Modern sustainable technologies require the extraction of rare metals from the Earth - calling their "sustainability" into question.

27.11.2023
 

27 Nov 2023 - Talk by Prof Eva Horn as part of the interdisciplinary lecture series "Planetary Thinking" at the JLU Giessen (in German)

15.11.2023
 

New IUGS publication by the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) that discusses seven challenges related to formalising the Anthropocene as a new epoch.

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.