Plastic pollution is another marker that scientists are studying to find out whether they could be the golden spike, the signifier of the Anthropocene. The scale of human impact on Earth To make ...

The Anthropocene, by contrast, struck a chord. Human impacts on the world have become a lot more obvious since Stoppani's day, in part because the size of the population has roughly quadrupled ...

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 ...

Admitting to the “Lunar Anthropocene” would, they say, acknowledge the significant impact of human activity on the lunar surface, which began in 1959 with the USSR’s uncrewed spacecraft Luna 2.

But, if acknowledging that we live in the Anthropocene does anything, it shows us that our actions will have major impacts on the only planet in the Universe known to harbour life. It would be ...

In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of observations to show that the global water cycle is ...

Luckily, this won't happen until at least 1.6 billion years from now, suggests new research from University of Chicago ...

The impact of information technologies on societies ... is also considered as the beginning of the Anthropocene as such. The Anthropocene Working Group of the International Committee on ...

We are faced with major global challenges involving the sustainable use of resources and stewardship of the environment. These include sustainable energy production and its impacts on other resources.

Climate impacts research is typically interdisciplinary ... and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene. The authors use data from 28 East Asian cities to ...

The impacts of climate change are not distributed equally ... We think it can. Participants in Anthems for the Anthropocene are challenged to create, perform, and record an original song, in response ...