It’s a phenomenon that was called the Homogenocene even before a similar term growing in popularity, the Anthropocene, was ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

Researchers believe that a new epoch may have begun on the Moon back in 1959, when humans first affected the surface. Dubbed the “Lunar Anthropocene,” the epoch has now seen over 100 spacecraft visit ...

ABSTRACT: The palynological study of core C61, retrieved from the Cameroonian shelf near the Sanaga Delta, offers new insights into the evolution of coastal environments and vegetation dynamics in ...

Charter from the Abbey Archives of St. Gall. Dated March 9th, 736. Describes the donation of property in Eigeltingen and Neuhausen, near Lake Constance. Archived documents like this reveal the social, ...

A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, “ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch” is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of ...

The basis for the findings of the international team, which includes researchers from Germany, the Netherlands, and China, is a sediment core obtained in 2005 during an expedition with the research ...

When people talk about the “Anthropocene,” they typically picture the vast impact human societies are having on the planet, from rapid declines in biodiversity to increases in Earth’s temperature by ...

A long-standing effort to formally place the Anthropocene on the geologic timescale came to a surprising end this year. In March, a panel of academics rejected the proposal to define a new epoch by 12 ...

The Holocene era covers the past 12,000 years of geological history. Holocene is derived from Holos, meaning whole, and Kainos, meaning new. This is quite a small phase in the Earth’s evolution. Yet ...