A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that the boundaries between geological epochs and periods, even though randomly distributed, follow a hidden, ...

Scientists have identified the geological site that they say best reflects a proposed new epoch called the Anthropocene — a major step toward changing the official timeline of Earth’s history. The ...

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Are we really living in the Anthropocene, the geological time marked by the global impact of human activity? And if so, when did it begin? These are questions that the Anthropocene Working Group is ...

Colin N. Waters is an honorary professor of geology at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. On 5 March 2024, the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) — the body responsible for ...

Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass extinctions and explosions of biodiversity, with different periods often marked by cataclysmic changes that radically ...

In early March, a team of scientists rejected the motion to designate the start of a new geological epoch, coined under the term “Anthropocene” to highlight the epoch we are currently living in as one ...

Researchers have zeroed in on nine sites that could describe a new geological time, marked by pollution and other signs of human activity. Geologists could soon decide which spot on Earth marks the ...

Researchers reconstructed the history of an unusual 30-year-old bird nest based on the expiration dates printed on plastic waste in the structure. Reading time 3 minutes Plastic may have started a new ...

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