The human population explosion, soaring from 1.6 billion to more than 6 billion during the 20th century, has had a profound impact on global environments and biodiversity. However, large mammalian ...

Geologists on an international subcommission recently voted down a proposal to formally recognize that we have entered the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch representing the time when massive, ...

And of course, there is the ever-present danger that nuclear war or other destructive acts could create a sudden extinction event. As a result of these human-centered threats, some researchers call ...

Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass extinctions and explosions of biodiversity, with different periods often marked by cataclysmic changes that radically ...

Geologists may have voted down formal recognition of the Anthropocene as a geological epoch, but we still need to act to prevent ecological crisis. A view of the glaciers as polar bears, one of the ...

Has the Holocene epoch of the past 11,700 years been supplanted by the proposed Anthropocene epoch of today? Although it’s broadly accepted that planetary systems have changed as a result of human ...

The sixth extinction -- The mastodon's molars -- The original penguin -- The luck of the ammonites -- Welcome to the Anthropocene -- The sea around us -- Dropping acid -- The forest and the trees -- ...