A panel of scientists on Tuesday chose a small suburban lake in Ontario, Canada, as the symbolic starting point to a new geologic epoch called the anthropocene, an era dominated by indelible ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Minding the collision of business, energy, science & the environment. The notion that the planet has entered a new geological ...

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 ...

Researchers searching for a 'golden spike' to formally define humanity's current geological period -- and acknowledge human impact on our planet -- have announced a major step in their analysis.

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 ...

Plastic particles in sediments could help to pin down the start of a new geological epoch. But their ability to migrate to older layers is muddying the waters. The presence of microplastics in layers ...

Welcome to the “Anthropocene” — a new epoch in our planet’s 4.5 billion year history. Thanks to the colossal changes humans have made since the mid-20th century, Earth has now entered a distinct age ...

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 ...

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 ...