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 ...

Many stratigraphers (scientists who study rock layers) criticize the idea, saying clear-cut evidence for a new epoch simply isn’t there. “When you start naming geologic-time terms, you need to ...

decided against giving the Anthropocene official recognition as the current geologic epoch. Now, several scientists involved in the process have published a commentary in AGU Advances explaining ...

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 ...