20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

Turns out we’re doing way more to the planet than making it dirty.
20 Bizarre Ways Humans Are Permanently Changing The Planet

There’s no question humans have had an outsized impact on this planet. It’s pretty surprising considering we started out as weak, slow hairless apes with relatively poor sensory abilities.  Ouch, it hurts us to even write it. We sound pathetic. But, here’s the good noise. We’ve managed to colonize the entire planet and emerge as the dominant apex predator among all planetary life forms.  That’s not mean feat for a relatively squishy mammal that doesn’t even have claws. 

We all like to think we're changing the world. The thing is, we as a species are literally doing that, every day. Human beings are changing our own planet in huge, quantifiable ways on a constant basis. For example, it turns out we’re not the only species affected by New York real estate issues and neighborhoods–the city has effectively bred genetically distinct populations of ‘uptown’ and ‘downtown’ rats, which, we’re sure has led to some passionate but doomed rodent romances,

And no, we're not just talking about trash. We're talking about things like ...

In 30 years, over half of China's rivers disappeared. Yellow River China's Beijing ridiculously fast industrialization and Zhengzhou population Lanzho
New York City's layout has created genetically distinct rat populations. Researchers have divided them into Uptown and Downtown rats. The two groups a
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Some scientists consider the Earth to have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene; an age where human activity causes more changes to the Ea
PHARMACEUTICALS CONTAINED IN HUMAN URINE ARE CHANGING THE BEHAVIOR OF FISH. DRUGS SUCH AS BANTIDEPRESSANTS THAT REMAIN IN URINE AND ARE FLUSHED INTO T
ANIMALS ARE TRYING TO AVOID HUMANS AND WE'RE CAUSING THEM TO BE MORE NOCTURNAL In areas populated by humans, multiple animal species- -carnivores and
Human activity permanently shrank ACC 0 VACHY big fish. YAGHT GULF STREAM GULESTREAM CRACKED COM A hanging board for a regular fishing tour's bigges
The London Underground has its Own mosquito species GRAC SO distinct it can no longer interbreed with the above-ground mosquito. UCEMISD They don't hi
There is a cape of debris covering Earth's orbit. The U.S. Space Surveillance Network and other organizations track roughly 750,000 pieces of space ju
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Urban expansion is changing the weather! Research has shown that larger cities can alter the clouds and rain formation, making it rain more in urban a
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The Suez Canal has opened the way for invasive fish from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean Sea. Hebron Gaza Gaza Sirip ficoo Port Said Beersheba ir A
Thanks to humans, the Milky Way is invisible from much of the Earth's surface. Because of artificial lighting, the Milky Way is invisible to 80% of No
WHILE FOX POPULATION IN THE UK IS STEADILY DECLINING, THE TREND IS REVERSED FOR URBAN FOXES. CITY COUNCIL BRISTOL TEL: 922 3838 They don't have to dea
Bedbugs that feed on humans have CRA armored upo Scientists found that bedbugs that feed on humans have developed thicker exoskeletons. It is believ
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