Anthropocene has become an environmental buzzword ... criticize the idea, saying clear-cut evidence for a new epoch simply isn’t there. “When you start naming geologic-time terms, you need ...

"All these lines of evidence indicate that the Anthropocene, though currently brief, is – we emphasize – of sufficient scale and importance to be represented on the Geological Time Scale and ...

Not everyone agrees that these changes represent enough evidence to declare a new formal geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Scientists all over the world are still debating. Although Earth's climate ...

Humans are largely the cause of this. Evidence found in Crawford Lake dates the beginning of the proposed Anthropocene back to the 1950s, when there was a significant increase in the human ...

The sharp change across the base of the proposed Anthropocene series (1952 CE) in varved sediments from Crawford Lake is recorded by numerous proxies of the Great Acceleration reflecting nuclear ...

Locals used to say that Crawford Lake was bottomless. Its waters ran deeper than people could reach. Anything that dropped into the basin, it seemed, would fall till the end of time. Yet when ...