Greater than half of life on Earth experiencing unprecedented circumstances

There’s virtually no ecosystem on Earth left untouched by human exercise, in line with new analysis that implies widespread change from air pollution, wildlife extinctions and disruption to flowers is pushing the planet into uncharted territory.

“We now have shifted the system to circumstances that now we have not seen earlier than,” says Alejandro Ordonez at Aarhus College in Denmark.

Ordonez and his colleagues have mapped the land’s publicity to 3 key drivers of ecosystem “novelty”…