When people talk about the “Anthropocene,” they typically picture the vast impact human societies are having on the planet, from rapid declines in biodiversity to increases in Earth’s temperature by ...

Researchers must consider human impacts on entire Earth systems and not get trapped in discipline-specific definitions, says Clive Hamilton. Do we live in the Anthropocene? Officially, not yet — ...

For the first time, researchers can offer a strong quantitative definition for the start of what is known as the Anthropocene, thanks to traces of radioactive material in marine sediments and corals.

FROM rapid climate change to biodiversity loss, the Anthropocene marks our times as an age of human-caused planetary disruption. A working group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy now ...

It is a period of geological time that some scientists believe should be formally declared because of the extraordinary impact of humans on the Earth. Why do they think that? In the last century, ...

It may be a widely-used term, but geologists still can't agree when the Anthropocene actually started. When exactly did human beings begin influencing nature on a planetary scale? The answer is not ...

For the past decade, there has been a raging debate among conservationists over how best for humanity to interact with nature to create a better future. Here, I will argue that defining our current ...

Man’s tenure on Earth is brief on the astronomical time scale, but the changes wrought by Homo sapiens have been measurable and profound. Now, a growing number of scientists propose renaming the ...

There is growing evidence that human activity has changed the Earth’s system to such an extent that we are now in a new geological age. This is according to members of the Anthropocene Working Group ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 4, 2024, the commission responsible for recognizing time units within our most recent period of geologic time – the ...