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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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Researchers have zeroed in on nine sites that could describe a new geological time, marked by pollution and other signs of human activity. Geologists could soon decide which spot on Earth marks the ...

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 ...

A few months into the third millennium, a group called the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (I.G.B.P.) held a meeting in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Among the researchers in attendance was Paul ...

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