The dramatic ecological decline sparked by human activity has led some scientists to argue the current geological epoch warrants a new name: the Anthropocene. But between the Industrial Revolution in ...

The word Anthropocene comes from the Greek terms for human ('anthropo') and new ('cene'), but its definition is controversial. It was coined in the 1980s, then popularised in 2000 by atmospheric ...

Is human impact on the planet really significant enough to warrant the concept of a new geological epoch? Palaeobiology experts from the University of Leicester share five pieces of evidence to ...

A documentary by Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky. In English and multiple languages, with English subtitles. Rated PG A new United Nations report gives humans about a ...

For the past 15 years, researchers with the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) have argued that the epoch of human-driven changes to the Earth's geology (for which their team is named) began more ...

the Anthropocene. Accelerated rates of change in our highly technological and knowledge-driven societies are directly tied to human-led developments. The rapid advancements in science and ...

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it is obvious that such an epoch will determine the historical representation as well as the social and political meaning of the events occurring in it. In other words, this new geological era will ...

The Anthropocene, by contrast, struck a chord. Human impacts on the world have become ... satisfy the criteria used for naming a new epoch? In geologic parlance, epochs are relatively short ...

Humans have been changing the moon since the Soviet Luna 2 probe crash-landed on the lunar surface in 1959 The Moon is in a new epoch, known as the Lunar Anthropocene, researchers say. Back when ...

Admitting to the “Lunar Anthropocene” would, they say, acknowledge the significant impact of human activity on the ... to declare the new geological epoch, according to a new paper published ...