Nobody doubts that human activities have dramatically transformed Earth, so why has there been no official recognition of the ...

Humans’ impact has been so profound that scientists have proposed that the Holocene era be declared over and the current epoch (beginning in about 1900) be called the Anthropocene: the age when the ...

Humans have become the single most influential species on ... For the last 11,500 years, Earth has been in the Holocene Epoch. It began at the end of the last ice age, when glaciers that had ...

Has the Holocene epoch of the past 11,700 years been supplanted ... accepted that planetary systems have changed as a result of human influence, a panel of experts at the International Union ...

all ecosystems—had recently sharply departed from the stability that they had shown for thousands of years during the Holocene epoch, a stability which allowed human civilization to grow and ...

There is no question that the existence of humans as a species has dramatically ... state of the Anthropocene and the end of the Holocene epoch that has defined the planet's past 11,700 years.

Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 years ago. The find “opens the door to rewrite South American history.” ...

This transition marked the beginning of the Holocene epoch, an era of relative climate stability that enabled early human ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 29,000 old child skeleton in Thailand, revealing ancient burial practices and human history.

That's what occurred in 2002 to Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize‑winning chemist. The epoch spanning the past 10,000 years is known as the Holocene, meaning "all that's recent." Crutzen suggested that the ...