For the last 11,500 years, Earth has been in the Holocene Epoch. It began at the end of the last ice age ... The Anthropocene is sometimes used to simply describe the time during which humans have had ...

According to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the professional organization in charge of defining Earth ... in the Holocene (“entirely recent”) epoch, which began ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital ... with large and small lakes during the early and middle Holocene epoch.

For the past 12,000 years, human civilization has enjoyed generally warmer global temperatures during what’s known as the Holocene epoch. But when you delve deeper into Earth’s recent past ...

Humans have remodeled the Earth so profoundly that in 2000, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene Stoermer proposed that the Holocene epoch had ended and the "Anthropocene," or ...

The dire wolf has been resurrected in a remarkable achievement by Texas-based biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences.

The mid-Holocene epoch, during which this forest thrived, saw natural temperature increases due to variations in Earth’s orbit and solar radiation. Scientists believe that studying these trees ...

Geologists have assigned the present time to the Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period, part of the Cenozoic Era, on the time scale of the 4.6-billion-year history of the Earth. However ...