Are we really living in the Anthropocene, the geological time marked by the global impact of human activity? And if so, when did it begin? These are questions that the Anthropocene Working Group is ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Humanity has etched its way into Earth’s ...

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 ...

From climate change to species loss and pollution, humans have etched their impact on Earth with such strength and permanence since the middle of the 20th century that a special team of scientists ...

Are we living in a new epoch in Earth's geologic history? A few years ago, a group of scientists proposed that, yes - that humans have so altered the planet that we have left the Holocene epoch and ...

Geologists from the University of Leicester are among four scientists- including a Nobel prize-winner – who suggest that the Earth has entered a new age of geological time. The Age of Aquarius? Not ...

(AP) - 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 now say a new epoch – the Anthropocene, marked by human impact on Earth – began in 1950s Humanity has etched its way into Earth’s geology, atmosphere and biology with such strength and ...