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 ...

A nuclear explosion mushrooms in the sky, casting orange light. Nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and early 1960s left the first obvious and indelible marks of "overwhelming" human activity on ...

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 – ...

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 ...

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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 ...

In early March, a team of scientists rejected the motion to designate the start of a new geological epoch, coined under the term “Anthropocene” to highlight the epoch we are currently living in as one ...

A panel of scientists on Tuesday chose a small suburban lake in Ontario, Canada, as the symbolic starting point to a new geologic epoch called the anthropocene, an era dominated by indelible ...

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, ...

The entirety of human civilization has occurred in the Holocene geological epoch, a period of relatively stable global temperature that stretches from 11,700 years ago to today. Maybe. For more than a ...

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 ...

One way to view the history of science is as a repeated puncturing of humanity’s claims to be special. In scientific terms Homo sapiens is an oddly hairless species of ape that has existed for 200,000 ...