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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 ...

Earth's 4.5 billion-year history is divided into geological epochs that each typically span millions of years. On Tuesday, scientists announced that sediment at the bottom of a lake in Ontario, Canada ...

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 ...

According to a group of scientists, we have entered a new epoch. Called the Anthropocene, the era is marked by human impact as evident in rising carbon dioxide levels, numerous extinctions, and ...

In early March, a team of scientists rejected the motion to designate the start of a new geological epoch, coined under the term “Anthropocene” to highlight the epoch we are currently living in as one ...

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 ...

An international group of scientists are naming the alleged new epoch the Anthropocene period. Geological epochs are characterized as long periods of time, typically lasting millions of years, ...

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 ...