Researchers believe that a new epoch may have begun on the Moon back in 1959, when humans first affected the surface. Dubbed ...

Dr Duncan Cook receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Disastrous fires, ongoing drought, and heat extremes have refocused Australians’ attention on the human contribution to climate ...

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 ...

Colin N. Waters is an honorary professor of geology at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. On 5 March 2024, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) — the body responsible for ...

Many boundaries between geologic eras are marked by physical golden spikes. This one, in South Australia, marks the end of the Ediacaran period, 635 million years ago. Bahudhara/Wikimedia Commons - CC ...

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. On The Anthropocene Reviewed, #1 New York Times bestselling author John ...

When you Google "geological epoch", the one that comes up most often is the "Anthropocene". "That tells us the thing that is most relevant to people right now is how we are impacting the planet," said ...

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Exactly where and when did the Anthropocene begin? Scientists are attempting to answer this epochal ...

For almost 30 years, we geologists have been having a debate about what Geologic Epoch we find ourselves in right now. It is presently called the Holocene, but some want to add another epoch and call ...

Here is the hypothesis: Not so long ago, the very nature of planet Earth suffered a devastating rupture. The break was sudden, global, and irreversible. It happened on a Sunday within living memory.

In an era defined by humanity’s impact on the planet, some animals appear to be proliferating quite happily. In the streets and alleyways of Baltimore, Dawn Biehler and her colleagues have been ...

Humanity has left boot prints, flagpoles, and crash sites scattered across the Moon, and a growing group of scientists now ...