We are living in a time many people refer to as the Anthropocene. Humans have become the single most influential species on the planet, causing significant global warming and other changes to land, ...

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 ...

Urban geographer Stephanie Wakefield’s “Miami in the Anthropocene” calls for a new critical urban theory for our time.

The Anthropocene is a relatively recent term, coined to define the epoch in which human activity is increasingly dictating ...

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That, Zalasiewicz says, is what we are in the process of determining. The word “Anthropocene” was coined by Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen about a decade ago. One day Crutzen, who shared a Nobel ...

Some scientists are calling it the Anthropocene era, or the age of the humans ("anthropos" is Greek for human), and argue ...

They also think that the Apollo sights should be protected. Admitting to the “Lunar Anthropocene” would, they say, acknowledge the significant impact of human activity on the lunar surface ...