Written to be read when the grandchildren are a bit older, these letters are an invitation to think with their grandpa about their life as “Anthropocene kids.” And being Anthropocene kids will not be ...

Plastic could become a key marker of the Anthropocene. Earth is now awash with plastic - millions of tons are produced every year. Because plastic doesn’t biodegrade, it ends up littering soils and ...

The AWC's proposed Anthropocene timeline is "no more than ... The ICS's rejection is currently being challenged for "procedural irregularities," one of the committee members told Nature.

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 ...

They also think that the Apollo sights should be protected. Admitting to the “Lunar Anthropocene” would, they say, acknowledge the significant impact of human activity on the lunar surface ...