Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have voted against a proposal to declare a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene to reflect how profoundly human ...

Scientists have identified the geological site that they say best reflects a proposed new epoch called the Anthropocene — a major step toward changing the official timeline of Earth’s history. The ...

Nuclear testing in the 1950s marked sediments at the bottom of a lake in Canada to such an extent that scientists are calling for it to become the symbol of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.

From climate change to species loss and pollution, humans have etched their impact on the Earth with such strength and permanence since the middle of the 20th century that a special team of scientists ...

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A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that the boundaries between geological epochs and periods, even though randomly distributed, follow a hidden, ...

The entirety of human civilization has occurred in the Holocene geological epoch, a period of relatively stable global temperature that stretches from 11,700 years ago to today. Maybe. For more than a ...

Are we really living in the Anthropocene, the geological time marked by the global impact of human activity? And if so, when did it begin? These are questions that the Anthropocene Working Group – ...

From climate change to species loss and pollution, humans have etched their impact on Earth with such strength and permanence since the middle of the 20th century that a special team of scientists ...

In early March, a team of scientists rejected the motion to designate the start of a new geological epoch, coined under the term “Anthropocene” to highlight the epoch we are currently living in as one ...

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