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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The word Anthropocene comes from the Greek terms for human ('anthropo ... There is already some evidence that plastic is being deposited into the fossil record. A 2019 study of sediments off the ...

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 ...