Scientists have been debating the start of the Anthropocene Epoch for 15 years. I was part of those discussions, and I agree ...

Has the Holocene epoch of the past 11,700 years been supplanted by the proposed Anthropocene epoch of today? Although it's broadly accepted that planetary systems have changed as a result of human ...

Humans have remodeled the Earth so profoundly that in 2000, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene Stoermer ...

For the past 15 years, researchers with the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) have argued that the epoch of human-driven changes to the Earth's geology (for which their team is named) began more ...

Scientists have made the case that Earth has entered a new epoch known as the Anthropocene. Unlike previous epochs, dating Earth's 4.6 billion-year history, which came about through natural ...

Would the Anthropocene satisfy the criteria used for naming a new epoch? In geologic parlance, epochs are relatively short time spans, though they can extend for tens of millions of years.

Not everyone agrees that these changes represent enough evidence to declare a new formal geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Scientists all over the world are still debating. Although Earth's climate ...

The Anthropocene is the proposed new geological epoch defined ... It took 14 years of scouring the world before the geoscientists in the Anthropocene Working Group chose Lake Crawford—the still ...

“The serial deposits, constructed out of artificial material, may not only document the history of a bird nest, but also reflect the history of our Anthropocene Epoch.” It’s difficult to say ...

an international committee of scientists – the Anthropocene Working Group – proposed to mark the Anthropocene as an epoch in the geologic time scale starting precisely in 1952. The marker was ...