Nobody doubts that human activities have dramatically transformed Earth, so why has there been no official recognition of the ...

For the last seven decades, Earth has been operating in unprecedented ways, leading many researchers to argue that we have ...

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 ...

It made world news last week when a small lake in Canada was chosen as the "Golden Spike"—the location where the emergence of the Anthropocene is most clear. The Anthropocene is the proposed new ...

While emerging from the geological and earth system sciences and frequently understood as a solely environmental matter, over the last decade the Anthropocene has become an important name for a much ...

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So, in the face of a rampant global appetite and a wildly uncertain future, is the chicken or the egg the more sustainable choice? 2.  Yellow chicken = green chicken. Chicken feed is no chicken feed ...

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.

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, ...