The atmosphere is being inventoried, and the inventory is full of us

Methylsiloxanes — silicone-based pollutants from cosmetics, lubricants, sealants, the entire industrial chemistry of modern life — have been found at unexpectedly high levels in the atmosphere across cities, rural regions, and even remote forests. The same week, scientists have begun documenting that cacti, which one might have assumed adapted to harshness on geological time, are now evolving "at lightning speed" — more than seven hundred fifty species under measurable rapid adaptation. The Euro ...