In the years since the term Anthropocene was coined by Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen in 2000, it has increasingly defined our times as an age of human-caused planetary ...

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 ...

Various dates have been proposed for when the Anthropocene effectively began, from the early 17th century to the mid-20th century, when the first atomic weapons were detonated. My new research ...

But the most important thing about the Anthropocene is not when and where it began, but when and how it might end. It is possible to imagine an Anthropocene that endures.

Led by the Anthropocene Working Group, a cadre of scientists who believe we switched over from the 11,700-year-long Holocene into the Anthropocene sometime around the testing of nuclear bombs in ...

“Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene,” an exhibit featured at the Nasher Museum of Art (as well as the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts) from ...

Called the Anthropocene — and derived from the Greek terms for “human” and “new” — this epoch started sometime between 1950 and 1954, according to the scientists.

A committee of roughly two dozen scholars has, by a large majority, voted down a proposal to declare the start of the Anthropocene, a newly created epoch of geologic time, according to an internal ...

A long-standing effort to formally place the Anthropocene on the geologic timescale came to a surprising end this year. In March, a panel of academics rejected the proposal to define a new epoch ...