Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 4, 2024, the commission responsible for recognizing time units within our most recent period of geologic time – the ...

This sobering Canadian eco-documentary hypothesizes that the world has entered a new era in the geological time scale: the Anthropocene epoch. It’s the age in which human activity, for the first time, ...

Humans have remodeled the Earth so profoundly that in 2000, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene Stoermer proposed that the Holocene epoch had ended and the "Anthropocene," or human ...

On a cosmological timescale, humanity’s existence is a mere blip. Yet, in our short lifetime, we have done outsized damage to Earth, so much so that some believe we need to invent a new geological ...

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 ...

What if expiration dates could tell us more than when something goes bad? Scientists have found that dates on plastic food ...

Geologists are a staid, often conservative bunch, not known for making political waves. These are the people for whom the idea of plate tectonics was so heretical that it took decades to achieve ...

An international team of researchers has chosen the location which best represents the beginnings of what could be a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene Working Group have put ...

Plastic waste in European coots' nests acts as a stratified record of human impact on nature. Credit: Ellen26 https://www.needpix.com/photo/1849749/ Plastic waste in ...