When people talk about the “Anthropocene,” they typically picture the vast impact human societies are having on the planet, from rapid declines in biodiversity to increases in Earth’s temperature by ...

For the first time, researchers can offer a strong quantitative definition for the start of what is known as the Anthropocene, thanks to traces of radioactive material in marine sediments and corals.

FROM rapid climate change to biodiversity loss, the Anthropocene marks our times as an age of human-caused planetary disruption. A working group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy now ...

The scientist Paul Crutzen grew tired of the Holocene 24 years ago. The geologic epoch had reigned for 11,700 years, ever since the sprawling ice sheets covering North America and Europe began melting ...

The Albany Bulb, which consists entirely of concrete “rocks” and other human artifacts, is a local emblem of the Anthropocene age—the time in geologic history when the human imprint is paramount.

Welcome to the “Anthropocene” — a new epoch in our planet’s 4.5 billion year history. Thanks to the colossal changes humans have made since the mid-20th century, Earth has now entered a distinct age ...

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Crawford Lake is so small it takes just 10 minutes to stroll all the way around its shore. But beneath its surface, this pond in southern Ontario in Canada hides something special that is attracting ...

Hermann Pfefferkorn’s office, at the University of Pennsylvania, spills across a large, well-lit room that seems to have closed in on itself with shelves and cabinets and papers generated during his ...

Wolfgang Lucht is an Earth-system scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and at Humboldt University in Berlin. In 1864, palaeontologist Édouard Lartet made a stunning discovery ...

Charles Sturt University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Yesterday in Part 1 I argued that the most enduring of the great crimes of the 20th century will surely prove to be human ...