Scientists have dealt the final blow in a long-running fight over one big question: Have humans messed up the Earth so badly that we’re now living in a new climate epoch? For 15 years ...

a new geological epoch representing the time when massive, unrelenting human impacts began to overwhelm the Earth's regulatory systems. A new epoch needs a start date. The geologists were ...

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 ...

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 ...

and gave rise to new creatures, including rodent-size mammals and the first dinosaurs. By the start of the Triassic, all the Earth's landmasses had coalesced to form Pangaea, a supercontinent ...

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 ...