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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coots seem to be an extreme case, providing the most concrete evidence of long-term plastic ... human influence — accidental archives of the Anthropocene. This story originally appeared on ...