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 ...

That, Zalasiewicz says, is what we are in the process of determining. The word “Anthropocene” was coined by Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen about a decade ago. One day Crutzen, who shared a Nobel ...

We are living in a time many people refer to as the Anthropocene. Humans have become the single most influential species on the planet, causing significant global warming and other changes to land, ...

A long-standing effort to formally place the Anthropocene on the geologic timescale came to a surprising end this year. In March, a panel of academics rejected the proposal to define a new epoch ...

It means "the Anthropocene" will not be added to the chronostratigraphic chart featured in textbooks and on classroom posters to record the major changes in Earth history. The International Union ...

The muds would be symbolic of the onset of a proposed Anthropocene Epoch. 'Case is made' for Anthropocene Epoch A manifesto to save Planet Earth (and ourselves) 'Anthropo-Scene': A visual record ...