A prestigious committee of modern geologists has issued the scientific verdict on the academic debate over Holocene vs. Anthropocene. They declare that Gaia, our beloved Earth, remains in the ...

The new study discussing the threat was published in the journal Biological Reviews. Five major extinction events have been identified in the history of life on Earth. The five events are the ...

The Earth's mass can now be expressed as six ronnagrams after scientists voted to add new metric prefixes - Copyright PIB/AFP - The Earth's mass can now be expressed ...

Are we really living in the Anthropocene, the geological time marked by the global impact of human activity? And if so, when did it begin? These are questions that the Anthropocene Working Group is ...

Geologists may have voted down formal recognition of the Anthropocene as a geological epoch, but we still need to act to prevent ecological crisis. A view of the glaciers as polar bears, one of the ...

Hopefully, we can learn to manage the planet in such a way that the Anthropocene extinction can be stopped. But if there is one thing we’ve learned from the history of past mass extinctions, it is ...

There is no question that the existence of humans as a species has dramatically altered planet Earth in ways both obvious and subtle. From the air we breathe to the ground we walk on to the water we ...