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 But that label is outdated, some experts say.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 ...

Each variation reflects a major climatic change. For the last 11,500 years, Earth has been in the Holocene Epoch. It began at the end of the last ice age, when glaciers that had previously covered ...

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 ...

Occidental Petroleum subsidiary Oxy Low Carbon Ventures has acquired Holocene Climate Corp., its second acquisition of direct air capture technology.

Japanese researchers hope that a new geologic epoch covering the present time will be named after Beppu Bay in western ... assigned the present time to the Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period ...