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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 ...

A survivor's guide to why forests around the world are being impacted by invasive pests and what can be done about it in an era of overwhelming human activity and climate change. A set of fundamental ...

While emerging from the geological and earth system sciences and frequently understood as a solely environmental matter, over the last decade the Anthropocene has become an important name for a much ...

Thousands of years from now, scientists who dig up our bones may classify our remains in a new way if the results of a momentous vote on Tuesday hold up. If they do, we’ll formally be the fossilized ...

Humans have had such a huge impact on the Earth that some geologists think the human era should be enshrined in the official timeline of our planet. They want to give the age of humans a formal name, ...

Kelly Jazvac, “Plastiglomerate Samples” (2013), plastic and beach sediment, including sand, basalt rock, wood and coral. All of these found-object artworks are the results of a collaboration between ...

What does the term Anthropocene – the proposed name for the geological era we live in – mean to you? Many people view the Anthropocene merely as the sum of all environmental problems. For me it is ...

It was in 2011 that the Economist, a publication usually known for arcane speculation on geopolitics and economics, welcomed its readers to the Anthropocene and warned that humans had “changed the way ...

The Albany Bulb, which consists entirely of concrete “rocks” and other human artifacts, is a local emblem of the Anthropocene age—the time in geologic history when the human imprint is paramount.

Examples of how human societies are changing the planet abound—from building roads and houses, clearing forests for agriculture and digging train tunnels, to shrinking the ozone layer, driving species ...