Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have voted against a proposal to declare a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene to reflect how profoundly human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. River full of debris Getty Images/panaramka Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Human influence on the moon has become so great that a team of scientists have declared a new geological epoch for our ...

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 – ...

A group of scientists is now declaring key evidence supporting the existence of a new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. This epoch, which marks a distinct phase in Earth's 4.5 billion-year ...

A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that the boundaries between geological epochs and periods, even though randomly distributed, follow a hidden, ...

Nuclear testing in the 1950s marked sediments at the bottom of a lake in Canada to such an extent that scientists are calling for it to become the symbol of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.