But other scientists disagree that Earth has moved into a new geological epoch. Erle Ellis, a professor of geography and environmental systems at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County ...

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

Earth has long alternated between ice ages and warmer interglacial periods, with the last glaciation ending approximately 11,700 years ago. This transition marked the beginning of the Holocene epoch, ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth.

What if expiration dates could tell us more than when something goes bad? Scientists have found that dates on plastic food ...

The duo suggested that we are living in a new geological epoch. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and modern humans have been around for around a mere 200,000 years. Yet in that time we have ...

Paleontologist Riley Black traces the cooperation among plants, animals, and ecosystems in “When the Earth Was Green.” ...

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 ...

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Geologists have assigned the present time to the Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period, part of the Cenozoic Era, on the time scale of the 4.6-billion-year history of the Earth. However ...

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