The scientists in the Anthropocene Working Group even became stars in a documentary. Read Next. ... Ellis used to think that formalizing the Anthropocene as an epoch was a good idea, ...

Find out more about the latest award-winning book by Zed Nelson, a star speaker at our forthcoming Festival of Photography; ...

Kathmandu, April 27 -- Yalamaya Kendra is hosting a documentary screening as part of its ongoing 'Plurality of Nature, Legal Activism, and Peace in the Anthropocene' event series today at Patan Dhoka.

This year’s theme is Documentary in Anthropocene, with a lineup of films that explore human interaction with nature, especially in the context of climate breakdown. “The climate crisis has been the ...

Scientists have identified the geological site that they say best reflects a proposed new epoch called the Anthropocene — a major step toward changing the official timeline of Earth’s history.

Called the Anthropocene — and derived from the Greek terms for “human” and “new” — this epoch started sometime between 1950 and 1954, according to the scientists.

A long-standing effort to formally place the Anthropocene on the geologic timescale came to a surprising end this year. In March, a panel of academics rejected the proposal to define a new epoch ...

Anthropocene has become an environmental buzzword ever since the atmospheric chemist and Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen popularized it in 2000. This year, ...

A panel of scientists rejected the term “Anthropocene” to describe a period in which humans have profoundly impacted the environment — but others keep using it.

Led by the Anthropocene Working Group, a cadre of scientists who believe we switched over from the 11,700-year-long Holocene into the Anthropocene sometime around the testing of nuclear bombs in ...

We’ve heard of the Anthropocene: how human activity has altered the planet. But the Great Acceleration? It’s that period from 1950 onwards, when the same human activities revved up even more ...