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 ...

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 ...

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 ...