the publisher Elsevier has launched a new aca­demic journal titled Anthropocene and the IUGS convened a group of scholars to decide by 2016 whether to officially declare that the Holocene is ...

"The Anthropocene as a new unit of the time scale ... of the public don't know what epoch they officially live in (The Holocene) — because it doesn't really matter." At the same time, even ...

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 ...

They are still debating the proof for the Anthropocene and are looking for what's known as a 'golden spike' - a marker in the fossil record which could demarcate the Holocene from the Anthropocene.

that rejected calls to declare the official state of the Anthropocene and the end of the Holocene epoch that has defined the planet's past 11,700 years. While on one hand this may seem like a ...

“‘Let's stop it,’” Crutzen recalls blurting out. “‘We are no longer in the Holocene. We are in the Anthropocene.’ Well, it was quiet in the room for a while.” When the group took a ...

The wish, need or preference to pin down a precise official start date for the Anthropocene is curious. The boundary between the preceding epochs, the Pleistocene and Holocene, says Encyclopaedia ...

Scientists have made the case that Earth has entered a new epoch known as the Anthropocene. Unlike previous epochs, dating Earth's 4.6 billion-year history, which came about through natural ...

DEFINITION: A new geological Age, defined by the impact of human activity. There has been much debate as to whether we have entered such an era already, moving on from the Holocene, due to our ...