What are the prospects of living among radioactive substances as military spending on atomic weapons increases and some countries invest in and maintain nuclear power on their paths to “net zero” CO₂ emissions?

What is the new geological epoch made of? Unearthing the Present connected the geological analysis of the present with a discussion of the changing scope for social and political agency.

Through the case of the nuclear accident at Palomares, Spain, historian of science Xavier Roqué shows the importance of local actants and scarce resources in registering and understanding Anthropocene-scale phenomena.

Comparing the approaches to radioactive fallout in the US and USSR, Kate Brown retraces the ways in which radio biologists and ecologists assessed and contorted radioactive contamination to study the resilience of ecosystems and human bodies.

Julian Charrière and Nadim Samman take us on a dive into Bikini Atoll to tell the story of the post-atomic ghostlands and the never-to-end heritage of contamination in the blasted reefs.

Assessing the effects of artificial radioactivity on human bodies and natural environments has a special place in the history of risk regulation, and has provided a key basis for understanding and defining the anthropogenic danger to life on Earth.

Maria Rentetzi shares a personal encounter during a research trip to Hiroshima. What can we learn from the intense humanity inscribed in gestures of respect and apology to the survivors of the atomic bomb, an event at the dawn of the Anthropocene?

Since its discovery, perspectives on radioactivity have changed drastically through time. In this piece, physicist Irka Hajdas takes a look into the nuclear past of Weldon Spring, Missouri.

A mythologized Uranium enrichment facility in Honeywell sets the scene for radioisotopes that are key markers for determining the Anthropocene.

This Field Station sets out to engage with the ecologic-economic-technological infrastructures between Kentucky and Illinois and will bring a regionally focused lens to the globally entangled Anthropocene condition.

The scenario has become a mode of knowledge of the first order. In fact, “running in scenario mode” seems to be the way in which contemporary existence, through the vision of this exploratory practice and tool, exemplifies learning and researching in and on the Anthropocene itself. This evening deals with the trans-methodical arrangement of scenario building and analysis and its specific formatting through institutional and media-based infrastructures.

White Sands is a “heritage site” layered with evidence of the Anthropocene. What does it disclose about the invasion of ecology and human technological innovation?