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

The group agreed to look at it as a formal problem in geology. Would the Anthropocene satisfy the criteria used for naming a new epoch? In geologic parlance, epochs are relatively short time spans ...

But most members of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy felt this “Age of Humans” should not be rigidly defined as an epoch — a stretch of geologic time that typically spans ...

Viewpoint: What the Anthropocene's critics overlook, and why it really should be a new geological epoch Story by Simon Turner, Colin Waters, Jan Zalasiewicz, Martin J. Head • 11mo ...

For the past 15 years, researchers with the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) have argued that the epoch of human-driven changes to the Earth's geology (for which their team is named) began more ...

Japanese researchers hope that a new geologic epoch covering the present time will be named after Beppu Bay in western Japan, a second such example following the Chibanian Age. Work is under way ...