An international subcommittee of geologists recently voted to reject a proposal to make the Anthropocene an official new geological epoch, defined by humanity's enormous impact on the planet.

We are living in a time many people refer to as the Anthropocene. Humans have become the single most influential species on the planet, causing significant global warming and other changes to land, ...

For the past 15 years, researchers with the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) have argued that the epoch of human-driven changes to the Earth's geology (for which their team is named) began more ...

It's an oft-repeated argument. But it completely misses the point. When Paul Crutzen first proposed the term Anthropocene in a moment of insight at a scientific meeting in 2000, it was not from ...

In August 2016, scientists participating in the Anthropocene Working Group put forward an official recommendation to rename our present time interval ‘the Anthropocene’. It postulates that humans now ...

They also think that the Apollo sights should be protected. Admitting to the “Lunar Anthropocene” would, they say, acknowledge the significant impact of human activity on the lunar surface ...

The Anthropocene epoch highlights the significant impact of human activity on the environment, prompting a reevaluation of capitalism's role in addressing climate change and environmental degradation.

This public event examines the critical intersection of natural and social sciences in addressing the profound questions of the Anthropocene. A leading scholar in World Politics, Professor Mathias ...

Can it generate climate action? We think it can. Participants in Anthems for the Anthropocene are challenged to create, perform, and record an original song, in response to a specific creative prompt, ...