They argue for “Anthropocene”—from anthropo, for “man,” and cene, for “new”—because human-kind has caused mass extinctions of plant and animal species, polluted the oceans and ...

But the age of humans is about more than just climate change. Our awareness of both the current state of the planet and the effects of our actions is a key factor in the Anthropocene. Although there ...

The extinction ... happened—like the mass extinction at the end of the Ordovician? That, Zalasiewicz says, is what we are in the process of determining. The word “Anthropocene” was coined ...

The current mass extinction differs from all others in being driven by a single species rather ... have proposed that the Holocene era be declared over and the current epoch (beginning in about 1900) ...

After all, scientists repeatedly remind us that our rapidly-heating planet is sending us into "uncharted territory" as we regularly break heat records and seem to be triggering a mass extinction ...

others have classified it as "an 'event,' like a mass extinction," the BBC said. Moreover, while the AWC pegged the mid-20th century as the official start of the Anthropocene — a "golden spike ...

This resource give an introduction to the Anthropocene - the recent time in which humans have become the single most influential species on the planet, ccausing significant global warming and other ...

It's done so after at least five other mass extinctions, all long before humans arrived on the scene. And it will do so after the Anthropocene extinction, which is being caused by human activities.