Human life accounts for the geological equivalent of "a blink of an eye." But geologists say they've found evidence that we've already left a permanent mark. https ...

The Working Group on the 'Anthropocene' (AWG) will provide its summary of evidence and its provisional recommendations on a potential new geological time interval. The Working Group on the ...

Colin N. Waters is an honorary professor of geology at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. On 5 March 2024, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) — the body responsible for ...

Jan Zalasiewicz is affiliated with Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (Chair) and Anthropocene Working Group. Erle C. Ellis is a former member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the ...

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Over the last century, humans have littered the oceans with plastic, pumped CO2 into the air and raked fertilisers across the land. The impact of our species is so severe and so enduring that the ...

Dr Duncan Cook receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Disastrous fires, ongoing drought, and heat extremes have refocused Australians’ attention on the human contribution to climate ...

As scientists get used to the idea that Earth is in a new geological age, that the Holocene -- the last geological age -- has been replaced by Anthropocene, they're figuring out how it got to be that ...

Cities will leave an unmistakeable mark in the geological record of our planet Human civilisation developed in a cosy cradle. Over the last 11,700 years - an epoch that geologists call the Holocene - ...

It was in 2011 that the Economist, a publication usually known for arcane speculation on geopolitics and economics, welcomed its readers to the Anthropocene and warned that humans had “changed the way ...

In the age of the Anthropocene—a era characterized by human-caused climate disaster—catastrophes and dystopias loom. The Anthropocene Cookbook takes our planetary state of emergency as an opportunity ...