we are officially in the Holocene (“entirely recent”) epoch, which began 11,700 years ago after the last major ice age. But that label is outdated, some experts say. They argue for ...

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 ...

Main St. in Rockford. The event features activities to teach about the Holocene epoch, meaning the period of time from the ice age to today, glaciers, mammoths and more. “We have really amazing ...