aroused controversy when they voted down a proposal to officially call our evolving geological epoch the Anthropocene. The IUGS decision provoked heated debate within the scientific community ...

Humans have remodeled the Earth so profoundly that in 2000, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene Stoermer ...

An Anthropocene Working Group was established in 2009 to explore whether the Anthropocene should be declared an official geological epoch, different to the Holocene, which began around 11,700 ...

Abstract as the debate over the naming of our current geologic epoch may seem, there are some concrete implications that come with opting to (or in this case, opting not to) officially designate a ...

Plastic may have started a new geological era on our planet ... but also reflect the history of our Anthropocene Epoch.” It’s difficult to say how future researchers will interpret our ...

While the term Anthropocene has been widely used for many years now, only geologists can officially denote the start of a new epoch. Specifically, experts look for a "golden spike," which is a ...

The duo suggested that we are living in a new geological epoch. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and modern humans have been around for around a mere 200,000 years. Yet in that time we have ...

Standing in the smirr, I ask Zalasiewicz what he thinks this epoch will look like to the geologists of the distant future, whoever or whatever they may be. Will the transition be a moderate one ...

The Anthropocene is the proposed new geological epoch defined ... It took 14 years of scouring the world before the geoscientists in the Anthropocene Working Group chose Lake Crawford—the still ...

Japanese researchers hope that a new geologic epoch covering the present time will be named after Beppu Bay in western Japan, a second such example following the Chibanian Age. Work is under way ...