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 ...

Regardless of official designation, the Anthropocene is "here to stay," with the term already in use in "art exhibits, journal titles and endless books." Even if their appeal fails, the scientific ...

In 2002, when Crutzen wrote up the Anthropocene idea in the journal Nature, the concept was immediately picked up by researchers working in a wide range of disciplines. Soon it began to appear ...

Rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs aren't just scenic parts of our landscape -- they're also vital engines for life on Earth. These inland waters 'breathe' oxygen, just like we do. But a new study ...

(Michael Samways, "Translocating Fauna to Foreign Lands: Here Comes the Homogenocene," Journal of Insect Conservation 3 [1999]: 65–66). Will Steffen, Jacques Grinevald, Paul Crutzen and John McNeill, ...

We are living in a time many people refer to as the Anthropocene. Humans have become the single most influential species on the planet, causing significant global warming and other changes to land, ...

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 ...

Journal of Applied Social Psychology 28: 437–68 ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 369, Special issue, "The Anthropocene: A New Epoch of Geological Time?" Zalasiewicz, Jan. 2008.

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 ...