Using geochemical analyses of marine sediments, researchers have been able to quantitatively reconstruct the Atlantic ...

For example, we currently live in the Meghalayan Age. It’s part of the Holocene Epoch, which began at the end of the last ice age 11,700 years ago, when ice caps and glaciers began retreating.

Amidst a campaign to declare the end of the Holocene, scientists can’t figure out just when the proposed Anthropocene actually started. The debate—now 15 years old—will only continue to fester.

They determined that adding an Anthropocene Epoch – and terminating the Holocene Epoch – was not supported by the standards used to define epochs.

That means it’s official. Our planet, at least for the time being, is still in the Holocene epoch, which began 11,700 years ago with the most recent melting of the ice sheets.

But it’s the Holocene that shows the greatest change in duration from other epochs: nearly three orders of magnitude (0.0117 million years versus 2.57 million years for the Pleistocene epoch ...

The AWG demonstrated "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the "relatively stable interglacial conditions" that existed since the start of the Holocene Epoch 11,700 years ago no longer exist because of ...

It would have ended the Holocene epoch, the 11,700 years of stable climate since the last ice age and during which human civilisation arose.

They determined that adding an Anthropocene Epoch—and terminating the Holocene Epoch—was not supported by the standards used to define epochs. Subscribe to the Daily newsletter.

For example, we currently live in the Meghalayan Age. It’s part of the Holocene Epoch, which began at the end of the last ice age 11,700 years ago, when ice caps and glaciers began retreating.

According to geologists, we humans have been living in the Holocene Epoch for about 11,700 years, since the end of the last ice age.

According to geologists, we humans have been living in the Holocene Epoch for about 11,700 years, since the end of the last ice age.