Geologic Time is a crucial concept to understanding the history of the earth—including the evolution of life. Many different representations of the timeline have been created, and many approaches ...

Humans have remodeled the Earth so profoundly that in 2000, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene Stoermer ...

"The only thing that happened with the vote is that the 'Anthropocene epoch' was not formally defined in the Geologic Time Scale. 'The Anthropocene' remains just the same as it was before the vote." ...

Scientists have been debating the start of the Anthropocene Epoch for 15 years. I was part of those discussions, and I agree ...

While some have argued it should be an epoch akin to the Holocene ... short time frame does not "fit comfortably into the geological time scale, where units typically span thousands, tens of ...

Japanese researchers hope that a new geologic epoch covering the present time ... part of the Cenozoic Era, on the time scale of the 4.6-billion-year history of the Earth. However, Paul Crutzen ...