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 ...

Humans have changed the Earth in such profound ways that scientists say we have entered a new geological period: the Anthropocene Epoch. But when did the new epoch officially begin? And how, exactly, ...

At first glance, these nine sites scattered across the globe seem unremarkable. A peat bog in Poland’s Sudeten Mountains. Searsville Lake, in California, and Crawford Lake, in Ontario. A stretch of ...

Search for a ‘golden spike’ is a key concept in Anthropocene study, which would provide a unique reference point – chosen somewhere in the world – to mark the beginning of the Anthropocene, that might ...

Crawford Lake Conservation Area Ontario, Canada. Source - Laslovarga, CC SA 3.0. Crawford Lake Conservation Area Ontario, Canada. Source - Laslovarga, CC SA 3.0. Crawford Lake, in Milton, Ontario, ...

Evidence that humans have surpassed nature as the shapers of change on the planet is omnipresent, scientists say, and some say that shift marks the beginnings of a new epoch for the planet called the ...

Scientists say that they have pinpointed evidence of the dawn of the Anthropocene – a new geological epoch caused by humanity’s irreversible impact on Earth. This so-called “Golden Spike” – a single ...

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There is no question that the existence of humans as a species has dramatically altered planet Earth in ways both obvious and subtle. From the air we breathe to the ground we walk on to the water we ...

POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) – An Idaho State University professor’s research is tackling one of the hottest debates in geology: Has human activity changed the planet enough to mark a new geologic time ...

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