anthropogenic
adjective
an·thro·po·gen·ic
ˌan(t)-thrə-pə-ˈje-nik 
: of, relating to, or resulting from the influence of human beings on nature
anthropogenic pollutants
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The researchers will next turn their study to how anthropogenic changes will impact the start of the next ice age.
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Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
Sea level rise — mostly due to glacial melt largely caused by anthropogenic climate change — has been a hot button topic for the past half century.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
But anthropogenic evolution is happening here and now.
—Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
Humanity’s firepower underpins the Anthropocene, which is the outcome not just of anthropogenic meddling but of a particular kind of meddling, made possible by humans’ species monopoly over fire.
—Stephen Pyne, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2025
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Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
Sea level rise — mostly due to glacial melt largely caused by anthropogenic climate change — has been a hot button topic for the past half century.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
But anthropogenic evolution is happening here and now.
—Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
Humanity’s firepower underpins the Anthropocene, which is the outcome not just of anthropogenic meddling but of a particular kind of meddling, made possible by humans’ species monopoly over fire.
—Stephen Pyne, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Jan. 2025
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anthropogenic
adjective
an·thro·po·gen·ic
-pə-ˈjen-ik
: of, relating to, or resulting from the influence of human beings on nature
anthropogenic sources of pollution
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