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.

Researchers have zeroed in on nine sites that could describe a new geological time, marked by pollution and other signs of human activity. Geologists could soon decide which spot on Earth marks the ...

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.

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 duties of the Anthropocene Working Group—a thirty-nine-member branch of a subcommission of a commission of the International Union of Geological Sciences—are both tedious and heady. As the group’s ...

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 ...

For the past decade, there has been a raging debate among conservationists over how best for humanity to interact with nature to create a better future. Here, I will argue that defining our current ...

Peter Sutoris does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

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 ...

Man’s tenure on Earth is brief on the astronomical time scale, but the changes wrought by Homo sapiens have been measurable and profound. Now, a growing number of scientists propose renaming the ...