Scientists have made the case that Earth has entered a new epoch known as the Anthropocene. Unlike previous epochs, dating Earth's 4.6 billion-year history, which came about through natural ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

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 ...

However, Paul Crutzen (1933-2021), a Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate, said humanity has already moved into a new epoch that should be called the Anthropocene. The Earth’s history is divided ...

Yet, in our short lifetime, we have done outsized damage to Earth, so much so that some believe we need to invent a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, to recognise the global change our ...

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While some have argued it should be an epoch akin to the Holocene ... human lifetime," University of Wales Earth Sciences Professor Mike Walker said to New Scientist. That comparatively short ...