But that label is outdated, some experts say. They argue for “Anthropocene”—from anthropo, for “man,” and cene, for “new”—because human-kind has caused mass extinctions of plant ...

At a meeting he decided to ask his fellow stratigraphers what they thought of the Anthropocene. Twenty-one of 22 thought the concept had merit. The group agreed to look at it as a formal problem ...

Look inside the nests of Eurasian coots ... that birds are inadvertently creating a stratigraphic record of the Anthropocene, the geological epoch characterized by significant human impact ...

The People Among the Plastic: Excess in the Anthropocene is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Anthropocene. That’s the name that is starting to be used to describe the current epoch of Earth’s history.