When people talk about the “Anthropocene,” they typically picture the vast impact human societies are having on the planet, from rapid declines in biodiversity to increases in Earth’s temperature by ...

They're stronger and more impactful than we ever knew.

The “world religions” suffer from their provenance. They are, one and all, children of the naively hopeful Holocene Epoch. Our species was born around 200,000 years ago, right at the end of the ...

A prestigious committee of modern geologists has issued the scientific verdict on the academic debate over Holocene vs. Anthropocene. They declare that Gaia, our beloved Earth, remains in the ...

(CNN) — 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.

A newly identified impact scar in southern China has turned a quiet patch of countryside into one of the most important ...

Earth’s geological timeline goes back 540 million years and gives us a picture, so to speak, of the history of our planet that we can read in the sediments found in rock layers, or strata. The ...

Over at the excellent blog Centauri Dreams, Paul Glister considers the recent proposal that humans have inaugurated a new geological epoch. He writes: “Geologists at the University of Leicester, ...