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A group of scientists is now declaring key evidence supporting the existence of a new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. This epoch, which marks a distinct phase in Earth's 4.5 billion-year ...

There's no doubt that humans have had a powerful impact on the planet, but some scientists believe the effects are so clear and widespread that our current time period should be declared the dawn of a ...

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 – ...

Humans have had such a marked impact on the earth that, in 2000, Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stormer proposed the term “anthropocene” to acknowledge the geological and ecological impact of humans. Now ...

For years, the term “Anthropocene” has been used to informally describe the human era on Earth. But new evidence suggests there’s nothing informal about it. We’re a true force of nature — and there’s ...

I SHALL pass lightly over the Permian and Triassic epochs, as being more nearly related in their organic forms to the Carboniferous epoch, with which we are already somewhat familiar, while in those ...

It would be called the Anthropocene. The word was coined by chemist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen at a conference in 2000. It denotes a new geological epoch, beginning about 200 years ago at 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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. In the first episode ever aired of the original Star Trek captain ...

Humans have altered Earth so much that scientists say a new epoch in the planet's geologic history has begun. Say goodbye to the 10,000-year-old Holocene Epoch and ...

IT may be of interest to Alpine geologists to note that the general results now obtained by Mr. Lamplugh in the Isle of Man are, in respect of the origin of the “Crush-Conglomerates” and the causes ...