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 millimeter-thick paperboard behaves just like plastic; it's strong, transparent, shapeable—and can hold boiling water.

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The concept of the Anthropocene, a proposed epoch marked by significant human impact on Earth, remains contentious. Despite profound human-induced changes, the ...

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 ...

(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, ...