As our evolution slows and industrialization and technology accelerates, a growing body of research suggests that human ...

Humans are now considered to be the greatest force impacting the geology of Earth. And as such the Athropocene—the age of humans—is the proposed term for our current geological time scale, marking the ...

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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 ...

In the relatively short time we've been walking the Earth, humans have left an undeniable impact on the planet. Now a scientific body has unanimously agreed that our actions have altered the Earth's ...

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 ...

Capitalism has run so amok, producing so much waste and life-destroying pollution, that scientists now say that Earth has entered an entirely new epoch: The Anthropocene On September 5 in Cape Town, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Here are some surprising facts about humans’ effect on planet Earth. We have made enough concrete to create an exact replica of Earth ...

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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 ...

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 ...

We have now become the dominant force shaping our planet with some saying we have entered a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene or the age of man. Alien observers monitoring Earth for signs of ...