"All these lines of evidence indicate that the Anthropocene, though currently brief, is – we emphasize – of sufficient scale and importance to be represented on the Geological Time Scale and ...

Humans are largely the cause of this. Evidence found in Crawford Lake dates the beginning of the proposed Anthropocene back to the 1950s, when there was a significant increase in the human ...

But the vote to officially reject this narrow classification of the Anthropocene, Ellis stressed, has "no bearing on the overwhelming evidence" that our species is "indeed transforming this planet." ...

Anthropocene has become an environmental buzzword ... criticize the idea, saying clear-cut evidence for a new epoch simply isn’t there. “When you start naming geologic-time terms, you need ...

Not everyone agrees that these changes represent enough evidence to declare a new formal geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Scientists all over the world are still debating. Although Earth's climate ...

Coots seem to be an extreme case, providing the most concrete evidence of long-term plastic ... human influence — accidental archives of the Anthropocene. This story originally appeared on ...